Ethics

This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.

Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.

In the near-term, gene editing is not likely to be useful. Even in the long-term, it may not be very practical.

Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?

Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?

What do communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have in common with U.S. Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan? Hint: It’s the same thing they have in […]

Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?

The potential of CRISPR technology is incredible, but the threats are too serious to ignore.

The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.

Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.

At first blush, the damages done by sexual harassment seem obvious. Make that incredibly obvious. Such behavior exposes our organizations to legal consequences and the subsequent financial fallout. And in […]

Identity politics has become a highly contentious element within modern political discourse. Those who support this approach believe it bolsters the presence and power of those who would otherwise be […]

They did really well considering joysticks are not designed for oral use.

How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.

The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.

The AI constitution can mean the difference between war and peace—or total extinction.

Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.

There’s a fortune to be made in data and silicon, and everyone is out for their share. Artificial intelligence is this century’s gold rush. Its promises scintillate in them there […]

Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.

Students who think the world is just cheat less, but they need to experience justice to feel that way.

Price gouging is prohibited in 34 US states and Washington D.C. But two scholars ask whether that’s the way it should be.

Should pharmaceutical companies pay people for their plasma? Here’s why paid plasma is a hot ethical issue.

Facing a shortage of medical resources, doctors in the U.S. may have to make difficult moral decisions over how to allocate care.

Those who have experienced amputations often wonder what happened to their limb after surgery.

To prevent torturous experiments on organoids, some are calling for clearer definitions of consciousness.

The private sector may need the Outer Space Treaty to be updated before it can make any claims to celestial bodies or their resources.

The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel’s Lama Nachman.

The question is no longer “can we” but “should we” edit human embryos.

It may be an uncomfortable thing to do, but creating a will can save your loved ones a lot of headaches after you’re gone.

The first human-monkey hybrid has allegedly been created in a Chinese lab.