Samuel W. Alderson is the genius who made dummies smart. The California inventor parlayed a knack for tinkering in his old man’s sheet metal shop into a gift for making highways safer here in America ...

An expert on car safety knew there was something wrong with the typical lean and featureless crash-test dummy. Trauma surgeon Stewart Wang, M.D., director of the University of Michigan International ...

On shelves at a Humanetics facility in Huron, Ohio, skulls stare from their eyeless sockets, shiny and silver. Around a corner, a rack is filled with squishy, peach-toned arms, legs, torsos and butts.

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