(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania (THE CONVERSATION) Starting near the ...

When you see a heavily police-patrolled area, what’s your immediate thought? Though the police may be there as a proactive step to reassure residents of a safe neighborhood, you’d probably think that ...

Female aquanauts are seen in our cover image, participating in the U.S. government's Tektite II project, performing biomedical experiments for NASA 50 ft. beneath the Caribbean Sea near St. John, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Starting near the end of World War II and continuing until the 1970s, the US government sponsored radiation experiments on human subjects. Some of these experiments were conducted ...