The 20-year journey of the Cassini spacecraft will come to an end on the 15 September when NASA crash the...
ethics
Why do people do bad things for money? An obvious question perhaps, but while we all do selfish things sometimes,...
Ever thought about the ethics and philosophy behind our technological progress? Well, don’t worry if you haven’t! Our author Silvia...
Explore the history and ethics of self-experimentation in medicine William Alexander believed that self-experimentation contributed to the benefit of mankind,...
When geneticist Craig Venter first suggested that it would soon be possible to sequence complete human genomes for $1000, the...
There is a runaway trolley on the railway tracks. Five people are tied to the tracks and the only way...
Religion, science and ethics have always had difficult relationship. From the time of Galileo’s house arrest for heliocentrism during the...
This news story was published in the Imperial News section of the Super Science issue (issue 28), as an important...
Dimmed lights cast distorted shadows over ancient bones, strange people in lab suits, tables covered in microscopes, insects, fossils and...
During the Royal Sociey Summer Exhibition I, Science went along and talked to some of the scientists and...
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts Emily Anthes Oneworld Publications (2013) Dolphins with prosthetic tails, spy beetles...
A year after the publication of breakthrough bird flu research was delayed due to bioterrorism concerns, Jenny Mitchell explores the...
Synthetic biologists often use 'BioBricks', DNA sequences with defined functions, to build new microorganisms. In a speech to the Royal...
A concordat has been agreed by universities, medical research charities, pharmaceutical companies and the government to create greater transparency in...
If opposites really do attract, then industry and academia must be made for one another. But should we be paying...
Are we on the brink of a future society, or already living in one? Michael Cook looks at the relationship...
