Since Zadie Smith published her début novel, “White Teeth,” twenty-five years ago, she has been a bold and original voice in literature. But those who aren’t familiar with Smith’s work outside of ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

The Sopranos creator David Chase is returning to TV with a new show about an infamous mind control experiment by the CIA. Chase’s new show, titled Project: MKUltra, is a limited series based on the ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

Cultivating a state of relaxed awareness. It’s a continuous, non-tense state of alertness where you are fully present and aware of your surroundings, your actions, and your internal state, without ...

What happens when a computer engineer accidentally throws away nearly $1 billion worth of bitcoin? How does a mysterious island turn into a hotspot for biohackers? Ever heard about the time the CIA ...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday, ruling the plaintiff’s claims of government “mind control” ...

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits. By Christina Caron We tend to respect and even idolize ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

MKUltra was a secret CIA program launched in the 1950s and 1960s to explore ways of influencing and controlling the human mind. The project served as a code name for a variety of chemical, ...

Tech juggernaut Apple Inc. has teamed up with neurotechnology firm Synchron to pioneer innovative products like iPhones and iPads that could eventually be operated through brain implants, signaling a ...