Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikimedia Commons People predicting the end of world generally make those predictions without scientific evidence to support them.

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities — rodentopias — to identify and examine the potential catastrophes that might befall human ...

In a laboratory in Maryland during the late 1960s, a small group of mice entered what looked, at least on paper, like an ideal home. There was no shortage of food, clean water arrived without fail, ...

In 1968, Dr John B Calhoun, a behavioural researcher at the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), began a groundbreaking study that may hold chilling warnings for humanity's future. Nicknamed ...

Editor’s Note: As InvestorPlace Digest writer Jeff Remsburg details in a recent piece, renowned behavioral researcher John B. Calhoun conducted a series of experiments that, by creating a “utopia” for ...