Ethics News
June 15, 2024
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June 13, 2024 Thirty-by-thirty: protect 30% of the planet by 2030. While conservation is popular in principle, the costs of actually enacting it often stall even the most earnest efforts. Researchers have now proposed a market-based approach to achieving the ...
June 4, 2024 An international team of conservation researchers and practitioners has developed an inclusive inventory approach for tracking global conservation areas, with an emphasis on local data and expertise. ...
June 4, 2024 A new study found that drowsy driving by teenagers is a common threat to public safety on U.S. ...
June 4, 2024 Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) ...
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June 6, 2024 Scientists show a new way of thinking about the fair impacts of AI decisions. They draw on a well-established tradition known as social welfare optimization, which aims to make decisions fairer by ...
May 22, 2024 A landmark longitudinal study of LGBTQ+ youths has found that transitioning gender identities is not associated with depression and that about 1 in 3 gender-minority youths change their gender ...
May 20, 2024 The dramatic decline in childhood mortality during the 20th century has added a full year to women's lives, according to a new ...
May 17, 2024 Recognizing and respecting the different ways nature is valued can enable better environmental decision-making, according to new ...
May 15, 2024 PES programs are currently structured in ways that could limit their participation or create incentives to drop out before the full environmental ...
May 14, 2024 A research team assessed the impact of a train station's opening on health expenditures. The natural experiment study revealed that a new mass ...
May 10, 2024 While intergroup interaction is a prerequisite for initiating peace and stability, there is the risk of further escalation from direct interactions. A shortage of an impartial electronic contact ...
May 14, 2024 The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while ...
May 14, 2024 Survey reveals nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support using emerging technology to screen embryos during IVF for risk of developing certain health conditions or traits that arise from more than ...
May 8, 2024 Researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging 'digital afterlife industry' causing social and psychological ...
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June 6, 2024 A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing 'natural' approaches to healthcare, new research suggests. Academics say their paper ...
May 20, 2024 A new study suggests that both step and time-based exercise targets are equally useful in protecting against early death and cardiovascular ...
May 16, 2024 Being stressed while witnessing injustice may push your brain towards altruism, according to a new ...
May 9, 2024 The division between liberals and conservatives on both climate-change beliefs and related policy support is long-standing. However, the results of a newly released global experiment show that ...
May 8, 2024 A study has found the widespread impact of child abuse and neglect, with analysis suggesting they cause nearly half of common mental conditions. Researchers say childhood maltreatment should be ...
May 8, 2024 How do city residents feel about animals in their immediate surroundings? A recent study shows how different the acceptance of various wild animals in urban areas is. Important factors are the places ...
May 6, 2024 Substance use disorder treatment in the community is a superior alternative to incarceration for offenders with a substance misuse background, according to a recent study evaluating the effectiveness ...
May 2, 2024 Genetics can be associated with one's behavior and health -- from the willingness to take risks, and how long one stays in school, to chances of developing Alzheimer's disease and breast ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a new study. If expanded, these ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Managing problematic student behavior is one of the most persistent, challenging, and controversial issues facing schools today. Yet despite best intentions to build a more inclusive and ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests -- including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade ...
Apr. 11, 2024 So far, biodiversity and agricultural productivity could not be reconciled because the socio-ecological system of agriculture is highly complex, and the interactions between humans and the ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers offer insights into the ethical dilemmas and legal complexities surrounding brain organoids, especially those derived from human fetal tissue. Their findings advocate for thorough ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990, according to a new study. Over the past three decades, reductions in death from leading killers fueled this progress, including diarrhea and ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Individuals underestimate the social connection they can make with a stranger who disagrees with them on contentious issues, a new research paper ...
Apr. 2, 2024 How do you spread a message about climate change? According to an international study involving 59,000 participants, some tactics may actually reduce ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study reveals that US working-age adults are dying at higher rates than their peers in high-income countries; the UK is also falling ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical principles in the development and governance of AI for ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Men and women with lower income or education levels are more likely to develop medical conditions related to alcohol abuse compared to similar individuals with a higher socioeconomic status, ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an ...
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- Childhood Maltreatment Responsible for Up to 40 Percent of Mental Health Conditions
- Acceptance of Animals in Urban Environments
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- Economist: Tens of Billions of Dollars in Forest Products Are Being Overlooked
- Hybrid Intelligence Can Reconcile Biodiversity and Agriculture
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- Life Expectancy Increased as World Addressed Major Killers Including Diarrhea, Lower Respiratory Infections, and Stroke
- Talking Politics With Strangers Isn't as Awful as You'd Expect, Research Suggests
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- Good News: The US Maternal Death Rate Is Stable, Not Sky Rocketing, as Reported
- New Study Shows How AI Can Help Us Better Understand Global Threats to Wildlife
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
- Although Trust in Science Remains High, Public Questions Scientists' Adherence to Science's Norms
- Advances in Forensic Science Improve Accuracy of 'time of Death' Estimates
Monday, February 26, 2024
- A New, Comprehensive Roadmap for the Future of Biomedical Engineering
- What Math Tells Us About Social Dilemmas
- Researchers Overestimate Their Own Honesty
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Citizen Science to Mitigate the Environmental Crisis in the Marine Environment
- Study of Usefulness of Lockdowns During Epidemics Identifies Alternate Solution
- Maternal Mental Conditions Drive Climbing Death Rate in U.S., Evidence Review Finds
Friday, February 16, 2024
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- Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes Are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths, New Analysis Reveals
- Bullied Teens' Brains Show Chemical Change Associated With Psychosis
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- Risk of Death During Heatwaves in Brazil Linked to Socioeconomic Factors
- A Large Percentage of European Plastic Sent to Vietnam Ends Up in Nature
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- Studying Cells to Improve Medulloblastoma Treatment
- About 22 High School Age Adolescents in U.S. Died Each Week from Overdoses in 2022, Driven by Fentanyl-Laced Prescription Pills
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
- AI Alters Middle Managers' Work
- Evaluating the Truthfulness of Fake News Through Online Searches Increases the Chances of Believing Misinformation
Monday, December 18, 2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023
- Disadvantaged People Wait Significantly Longer for Power Restoration After Major Storms, Research Shows
- Jurors Recommend Death Penalty Based on Looks, but New Training Can Correct the Bias
- Thinking About God Inspires Risk-Taking for Believers, Study Finds
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Friday, October 20, 2023
- Harsh Workplace Climate Is Pushing Women out of Academia, Review Finds
- Keeping a Human in the Loop: Managing the Ethics of AI in Medicine
- Ensuring Fairness of AI in Healthcare Requires Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
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Monday, September 18, 2023
- Top Scientists, Engineers Choose Startups Over Tech Behemoths for Reasons Other Than Money
- What the French Revolution Can Teach Us About Inflation
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023
- Lions on the Brink -- New Analysis Reveals the Differing Threats to African Lion Populations
- AI Can Help Write a Message to a Friend -- But Don't Do It
Thursday, September 7, 2023
- A Positive Worldview Is Less Associated With Privilege Than Expected
- A Finer Picture of Global Migration Reveals Complex Patterns
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
- Racial and Socioeconomic Differences Still Determine Survival Rates of Premature Babies in the US
- Invasive Species Are Animals, Too: Considering a Humane Approach
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- Greater Excess Mortality After Hurricanes More Recently and for Most Socially Vulnerable in the U.S.
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- Cap Top 20% of Energy Users to Reduce Carbon Emissions
- The Missing Americans: Unprecedented US Mortality Far Exceeds Other Wealthy Nations
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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- GPT Detectors Can Be Biased Against Non-Native English Writers
- Criticism With Care Is More Persuasive