Scientific Conduct News
May 21, 2024
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Feb. 20, 2024 Common pool resources comprise around 65 percent of Earth's surface and vast tracts of the ocean. While examples of successful governance of these resources exist, the circumstances and mechanisms behind their development have remained unclear. ...
Oct. 19, 2023 Governments and companies emphasize the importance of protecting themselves from disruptions. Yet, they hesitate to share data with each other. But why should they embrace the idea of building a ...
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 ...
Dec. 21, 2022 An international team of researchers has mapped out the values and benefits of elephants to help overcome conservation challenges and ...
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Feb. 26, 2024 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other research fields at ...
Jan. 18, 2024 When you try a new restaurant or book a hotel, do you consider the online reviews? Do you submit online reviews yourself? Do you pay attention if they are filtered and moderated? Does that impact ...
Aug. 1, 2023 The public funding of science is responsible for many of the biomedical and other scientific breakthroughs on which our lives depend. However, the ...
Apr. 7, 2023 People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic ...
Jan. 11, 2023 The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ...
Sep. 27, 2022 A new report outlines a model law for facial recognition technology to protect against harmful use of this technology, but also foster innovation for public ...
June 28, 2022 Scientists review recent experiments and find noise regulations may need to be changed to protect porpoises, seals, and other sea-dwelling mammals. Current guidance for seals and porpoises is based ...
Apr. 14, 2022 People may be willing to condone statements they know to be false and even spread misinformation on social media if they believe those statements could become true in the future, according to new ...
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 ...
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Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical principles in the development and governance of AI for ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Contrary to some claims, laws that criminalize or otherwise punish drug use during pregnancy are more likely to worsen rather than improve health outcomes. The study is the first to systematically ...
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 ...
Oct. 26, 2023 A well-established psychological theory states that most of us are less likely to intervene in a bad situation if other people are present, and this 'bystander effect' also applies to ...
Oct. 19, 2022 Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia, is plagued 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apr. 4, 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. ...