Ethics

The British royal family once led an empire based on white supremacy that caused suffering that continues today

The Iranian government is taking advantage of Internet shutdowns to push citizens onto a local intranet that is vulnerable to surveillance and censorship

The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups

The Buffalo massacre shooter contorted genetic studies to support his hateful views

The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts

Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines

Jalonne White-Newsome went from being a Dow Chemical devotee to a leading injustice advocate

An expert in emerging technologies warns that software designed to summarize, translate and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science

The technology could help patients exert control over their medical data

For decades anthropologists exploited Indigenous peoples in the name of science. Now they are reckoning with that history

As more of physics research is funded by the military, it is important to learn the full history of our past

Celebrated sociologist Alondra Nelson and genome leader Francis Collins will temporarily split Lander’s duties