ethics

Nearly three weeks after the abrupt exit of Black artificial intelligence ethicist Timnit Gebru, more details are…

Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology,…

Universities, drug companies, and government agencies are breaking the law and not turning in their science…

Writer Dan DiDio and artist Shane Davis’ new Metal Men series, out this week, is drenched in bright splashes of…

Rapid progress in research involving miniature human brains grown in a dish has led to a host of ethical concerns,…

While Young Justice: Outsiders’ larger, overarching story has followed multiple groups of public-facing and covert…

An international collaboration is claiming to have created hybridized human-monkey embryos in China. Disturbingly,…

Medical professionals are getting increasingly entangled in the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has gripped the U.S.…

New research shows that the genetic tweak employed by disgraced Chinese scientist He Jiankui to make babies immune…

A terminally ill patient who opted for assisted death has undergone cryonic preservation at the Alcor Life Extension…

A suite of genetic tests used to predict a person’s response to specific medications is being marketed illegally by…

A new study published in BMJ Open has called for over 400 scientific papers on the subject of organ transplantation…

Chinese researchers have cloned five gene-edited monkeys with a host of genetic disease symptoms, according to two…

The scientist responsible for creating the world’s first genetically modified babies violated government bans and…

For the time being, pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers-Squibb and others will not be allowed to avoid a…

A once renowned cancer expert has lost another title following revelations that he reportedly received millions of…

To tackle widespread scientific misconduct, the Chinese government has expanded its controversial social credit…

Quantum computers that can crack our strongest encryption methods might be decades away—but a group of entrepreneurs…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke—a man who wears ranger hats backwards and spreads conspiracy theories about how “radica…

Twin girls born earlier this month had their DNA altered to prevent them from contracting HIV, according to an…