ethics

  • The ethics of employing animals

    Swedish crow project raises the question of why humans think we can make intelligent creatures do...

    Bird experts are expressing deep concerns about a start-up that swept the news last week, announcing that it wants to...

    Birds February 7, 2022
  • How should we handle death?

    New report calls for a global “paradigm shift” on death and dying.

    Much of the world’s resources, efforts and expertise of the past century have been put into avoiding death. But a mul...

    Culture February 1, 2022
  • Driverless dynamics and fiddling with fingers

    The promise of robots, and of human-robot societies, seems as elusive as ever. What are the main ...

    Dr Nicole Robinson spends her days working with robots. But not just today’s robots – she is working with the robots ...

    Robotics January 14, 2022
  • The complex ethics of human history

    Researchers collecting and analysing ancient human DNA must navigate a minefield of ethical consi...

    Readers are advised that this article contains images of ancient human remains.At the end of this century’s firs...

    Ethics December 3, 2021
  • How to use drones responsibly in Kakadu

    Indigenous-led guidelines are necessary for conservation technology.

    Drones have transformed conservation and land management over the past decade, making it easier than ever to collect ...

    Ethics December 3, 2021
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    Let's talk about genetics and disease

    Genomic data promises incredible insights into disease risks, but careful frameworks are needed t...

    Being told you are genetically predisposed to disease is scary - what does it even mean? Genetics and disease are hig...

    Biology November 17, 2021
  • Beware the lure of unethical solar power

    Solar power may combat climate change, but a damning report suggests it’s not always ethical

    Solar energy may be the future. But only if it lets go of the past.International NGO the World Economic Forum...

    Energy October 4, 2021
  • Stem cell research guidelines changed

    New international guidelines relax “14-day rule”.

    For the first time in five years, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has updated its guidelines...

    Health May 27, 2021
  • Ethics of making human blastocysts in a lab

    新的复位arch means new cause to revise the ethics of research into early human life stages.

    The findings of two papers released today in the journal Nature by two separate research groups – one mainly Australi...

    Ethics 2021年3月18日
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    Cosmos Briefing: Science v law

    Experts discuss whether scientific evidence is properly considered in our courts.

    Australia’s legal system should reconsider how seriously it regards scientific evidence, according to today’s Cosmos ...

    Cosmos Briefing March 9, 2021
  • Genetic tests, assured

    Is Australia doing enough to guard against genomic discrimination?

    The Australian insurance industry’s self-regulated moratorium restricting the use of genetic test results in life ins...

    News February 8, 2021
  • CRISPR scientists take away a Nobel

    Chemistry prize won for revolutionary genetic scissors.

    The scientists who gave us the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors, French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and US bioc...

    News October 8, 2020
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