Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the US Defense Department while OpenAI welcomed a Pentagon contract. This is why the next era of AI needs to be rooted in safety and ethics.

Hundreds of millions of animals are killed on our roads each year. Now, scientists have revealed how these deaths could play ...

The University of Minnesota’s 11th Annual Research Ethics Day Conference will consider how to move forward in a changing ...

I've often wondered if the way in which individuals view and treat their own and other dogs is related to how they view animal-human relationships in general. Based on discussions with many people, I ...

Introduction The use of data science for health research produces complex ethical, legal and social challenges that traditional ethical oversight mechanisms struggle to address. In Nigeria, the ...

A recent review of over 312 studies has identified dozens of unique uses of roadkill in scientific research. The review, published in Biology Letters, discusses the advantages of using roadkill ...

A case series describes 24 patients who received donation after circulatory death cardiac allografts that were recovered using the REUP technique. REUP is an organ procurement technique that doesn't ...

Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

The AI revolution isn’t driven by technological progress alone. The ethical standards and legal frameworks adopted by governments, businesses and individuals will have an equally significant influence ...

Virtual reality courses have become more common, thanks to the development of new classroom applications for the software and the increased affordability of VR and augmented reality technology for ...