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July 21, 2023
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Robots and Rights: Confucianism Offers Alternative

May 25, 2023 —As robots assume more roles in the world, a new analysis reviewed research on robot rights, concluding that granting rights to robots is a bad idea. Instead, the article looks to Confucianism to offer an ...

Appreciating the Value of Elephants

Dec. 21, 2022 —An international team of researchers has mapped out the values and benefits of elephants to help overcome conservation challenges and ...

Archaic Laws Prevent Conservationists from Bidding on Public Resources; Experts Think This Should Change

Aug. 26, 2021 —Updating the laws, the researchers say, will allow the true value of public resources to be revealed in an environmental market. It will give different groups equal footing in auctions, and create a more stable, actionable path toward conservation, ...

Society Is Not Ready to Make Human Brains

Apr. 8, 2021 —Scientists explain the future ethical implications of this research with regards to brain organoids, a laboratory-made structure that is designed to grow and behave like the ...
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Amber Fossils from Myanmar

Oct. 19, 2022 —缅甸,一个在东南亚国家,是困扰by political and economic crises. The fall of a president, a military putsch and the crackdown on religious minorities have had an impact not only on ...

Most Preprint Studies of COVID-19 Hold Up Through Peer-Review

Oct. 12, 2022 —Research findings posted online as preprints -- studies made public before undergoing the review and approval of a panel of peer scientists required by most scholarly journals -- often hold up quite ...

College Student 'Fear of Missing Out' (FoMO) Associated With Illicit Behavior

Oct. 5, 2022 —The fear of missing out (FoMO) on rewarding and fun experiences is something that most people feel at some point in life. Among college students, the degree to which someone experiences FoMO is ...

Ethics Not Only Allow but Demand Placebo in Some HIV Cure Trials, Paper Finds

Sep. 29, 2022 —Is it ethical to test possible HIV cures by having subjects stop taking antiretroviral therapy and then giving them placebos rather than the experimental treatment? The answer is often yes, according ...

Ethical Challenges in Microbiome Research

May 16, 2022 —A human rights activist and a group of anthropologists and human biologists are casting a critical lens on the way that microbiome research is conducted with Indigenous ...

Ethical Communication in the Age of Information

Apr. 20, 2022 —To comprehensively understand the ethical issues involved when communicating with research participants through the Internet, researchers developed an ethical framework and practical guidelines to ...
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Hospitals Rapidly Translated Evidence Into Practice During the Pandemic

4月4日2022 —The largest survey to date shows that rapid information sharing, multi-disciplinary teams and novel communication methods enabled remarkable consistency of care across U.S. ...

COVID-19 Pandemic Has Created Flood of Potentially Substandard Research, Expert Says

Oct. 1, 2020 —The COVID-19 pandemic has created a flood of potentially substandard research amid the rush to publish, with a string of papers retracted or under a cloud and a surge in submissions to pre-print ...

Do-It-Yourself COVID-19 Vaccines Fraught With Public Health Problems

Sep. 17, 2020 —'Citizen scientists' developing homemade COVID-19 vaccines may believe they're inoculating themselves against the ongoing pandemic, but the practice of self-experimentation with ...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Could Enhance Scientific Peer Review, Researchers Say

Sep. 15, 2020 —Artificial intelligence and machine learning could enhance scientific peer review as scientists rush to publish COVID-related research, according to ...

An Embedded Ethics Approach for AI Development

Sep. 1, 2020 —The increasing use of AI (artificial intelligence) in the development of new medical technologies demands greater attention to ethical aspects. An interdisciplinary team advocates the integration of ...