A top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built a following by accusing the nation's top medical institutions ...

A new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute outlines six core ethical challenges in synthetic biology, including ...

Should they regulate it more? Should they subsidize it? Just asking questions. The above are all questions that the Trump ...

The EO directs the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in consultation with the heads ...

Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about.

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

Hosted by Provost Alec Gallimore, the symposium took place a week after he announced a new initiative that aims to increase conversation about the technology and make the University a leader in the ...

Nick Franks has challenged the accepted theory of what happens to our brains as we sleep, and he’s faced fierce and personal ...

Against the backdrop of global restrictions on scientific freedom, and not least in light of recent political developments in the United States, the science academies of the G7 countries have today ...

And in a deeply compromised world, is moral clarity enough? Were you also consciously grappling with these kinds of ethical questions while writing the novel, in how you shaped your characters ...

In April 2020, around 3.9 billion people in 90 countries were contained in their homes. Discourse on the ethical questions raised by such restrictions while historically rich is absent when it comes ...

The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around ...