Science

On the ethical questions that medical apps pose for consumers and providers.

How should religious leaders accommodate lab-grown meat in belief-based diet restrictions?

Apple's removal of the headphone jack from its latest iPhone sparks worries about proprietary technology and e-waste.

Pharmaceutical company Mylan's choice to hike the costs of EpiPens has brought widespread debate on prescription drug prices.

Should public health experts use genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent a Zika epidemic?

Fighting a wave of explicit online content, sites like Facebook grapple with the ethics of automated content moderation.

NASA's latest probe entered Jupiter's orbit late on July 4th, furthering debates on the value of space exploration.

Reflecting on the recent Orlando mass shooting, and the role social media plays in both passing gun control legislation and sensationalizing tragedies.

The popular augmented reality app underscores tensions between the individual, technology and the public space.

Investigating the case of Julianne Snow, a five-year-old girl who chose to refuse medical treatment to a degenerative neurological disease known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Do children have the capacity to consent to dying?

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How should communities balance the benefits of exercise with the dangers of air pollution?

In the wake of Syed Farook, the FBI is asking for more power to look into personal cell phone records and computer history. But Google and Apple say that's crossing a major civil liberty line.

Corn and soybeans are profitable crops, as evident by their popularity. But have these crops sneakily done more to our lives than simply give us soy butter and popcorn?

Should we start paying more attention to race and diversity in the medical profession? Medical students of color explain their experiences of being treated differently, both in the classroom and the field.

Despite their documented dangers, anti-psychotic drug use in nursing homes has continued at a rate that alarms health experts.

Tay, Microsoft's interactive Twitter bot, was a sobering experiment for the future of AI. Does the bot's example call for more considerations of morality in artificial intelligence development?

Classes teaching parents childrearing techniques have been suggested to reduce rates of maltreatment. But are such approaches enough?

The San Beranderino Shooting was one of largest tragedies on U.S Soil since 9/11. In attempts to figure out why Farook and his wife committed the crime, Farook's iPhone was taken into police custody. Apple was not helpful and took a stand to defend user privacy. Was that okay?

Corby Burger argues that the debate surrounding Apple, the FBI and cyber security must not only take place within the courts.