Acknowledging that mothers wield great power over their children makes many people uncomfortable. This is because the idea of Mom as a ruler—potentially an attentive and caring monarch, an absentee ...

Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when, to get the Holy Grail, Indy has to step into a chasm as a leap of faith? Multiple scientists have done similar things to babies. Why ...

Think you’ve seen the worst that mad science has to offer? How about an experiment in which scientists rendered kittens essentially sightless? And that’s not the worst of it. Learn about harnessed ...

Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the “Visual Cliff”—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. But ...