On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

An animal rights group is taking credit for stopping tests on sheep the U.S. Navy had been funding two years ahead of schedule. More than $389,000 in taxpayer money was awarded to the University of ...

An animal rights group says that it has successfully lobbied the Navy to end a pair of studies that involved subjecting sheep to conditions that simulated surfacing quickly from a great depth, causing ...

A Texas mortuary owner is accused of conducting gruesome experiments on corpses, chopping off "heads, arms and spines" to test the impact of embalming fluids, officials said. Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, ...

Reports of severed heads reacting angrily to be slapped and shouted at in France after being guillotined fuelled interest in the grisly subject THIS is the astonishing story of the grisly experiments ...

A NEW industry referred to as “death disrupters” has emerged looking to capitalise on questionable science inspired by a century-old idea. A new start-up co-founded by a handful of Harvard scientists ...

WASHINGTON — It’s not just curiosity killing the cat anymore — it could be the Army. The Army Medical Research and Development Command has quietly allowed shooting cats and dogs for wound experiments ...