Ethics News
November 7, 2024
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Oct. 28, 2024 There is a yawning gap between national policies to enhance biodiversity and the individual and small group behavioral changes that are critical to making a real ...
Oct. 25, 2024 A new study found that higher levels of stereotypical male gender expression were associated with a decrease in reported diagnoses and treatment for cardiovascular disease risk ...
Oct. 24, 2024 Clinics that offer exosome therapies claim they have the ability to repair and regenerate tissues and treat inflammatory and other immune-related conditions in a noninvasive way. Now, a team of bioethicists and legal scholars is sounding the alarm ...
Oct. 23, 2024 A new study by learning analytics researchers presents key considerations for generative AI (GenAI) educational tools so they are carefully developed to support, rather than replace, human ...
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Oct. 23, 2024 A new report says any research into large-scale interventions in Earth's climate system must be grounded in sound ethical principles so society can make informed choices about whether to deploy ...
Oct. 23, 2024 Researcher presents a new model for risk research which takes interactions into account and brings together various ...
Oct. 21, 2024 U.S. babies died at a higher rate in the months following the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision, and infant mortality was ...
Oct. 17, 2024 This multi-state study is a real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV -- short for respiratory syncytial virus -- vaccine. VISION ...
Oct. 8, 2024 Researchers are calling for reforms to Australia's environmental laws, as threatened fish species continue to be legally ...
Oct. 8, 2024 A circular bioeconomy that reduces and recycles waste, transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable bio-based alternatives, and regenerates natural systems is critical for feeding and fueling the ...
Oct. 2, 2024 A new thought piece highlights the challenges facing healthcare researchers and decision makers in the quest to improve population health in a constantly evolving healthcare landscape. The authors ...
Oct. 4, 2024 Magic tricks make the impossible seem possible. Magicians have long captivated audiences with visual tricks, such as pulling a bunny from a hat or sawing someone in half, but tricks that rely on ...
Sep. 23, 2024 Latino and Black family medicine doctors are significantly more likely to participate in the Medicaid program and care for higher numbers of Medicaid patients compared to their White and Asian ...
Oct. 1, 2024 As many as 249 lives could have been saved in London during the 2018 record-setting hot summer had the city widely adopted cool roofs, estimates a ...
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Nov. 4, 2024 A new study highlights key challenges and tensions in research ethics, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and calls for the adoption of new research ...
Oct. 23, 2024 People's bias toward sacrificing unknown bystanders appears to stem from assuming the unidentified person is an enemy, according to a new ...
Oct. 22, 2024 Workplace bullying poses a serious threat to employees' health and well-being. A study sheds new light on the impact of social relationships on workplace bullying. Focusing on the dynamics of ...
Oct. 21, 2024 Docudrama can lead people to be more empathetic toward people who are stigmatized in society, a new study ...
Oct. 17, 2024 A new computational model analyzes the factors that help determine whether debunking efforts will persuade people to change their beliefs about the legitimacy of an ...
Sep. 26, 2024 A study of informal finance finds that in East Africa, money moves in very different patterns depending on whether societies are structured around family units or age-based ...
Sep. 24, 2024 Stranger churches in early modern London had 'eyes everywhere' to hear, spread and dispel gossip in multiple languages, according to new ...
Sep. 19, 2024 The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...
Sep. 18, 2024 A survey reveals that a significant proportion of UK general practitioners (GPs) are integrating generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, into their clinical workflows. The results highlight the rapidly ...
Sep. 17, 2024 Lower socioeconomic status is associated with higher rates of death from coronary artery disease compared to higher socioeconomic status, and more than half of the disparities can be explained by ...
Sep. 17, 2024 Volunteering used to be a mainstay of U.S. culture. But in recent years, giving back to their community hasn't played as big a role in many Americans' lives. New research suggests the ...
Sep. 17, 2024 Cultural values and traditions differ across the globe, but large language models (LLMs), used in text-generating programs such as ChatGPT, have a tendency to reflect values from English-speaking and ...
Sep. 12, 2024 Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources ...
Sep. 11, 2024 Researchers found an increase in surgical sterilization among women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to ...
Sep. 9, 2024 A new psychology study shows that framing the need to address climate change as patriotic and as necessary to preserve the American 'way of life' can increase belief in climate change and ...
Sep. 9, 2024 A strong belief in their own academic ability can help children from low-income families defy the odds and achieve academic success, according to new ...
Sep. 9, 2024 Out-of-body experiences, such as near-death experiences, can have a 'transformative' effect on people's ability to experience empathy and connect with others, new research ...
Sep. 6, 2024 Conservation needs to scale successfully to protect nature. A new paper takes lessons from around the world to show how that might be ...
Sep. 5, 2024 A new study found that cardiovascular disease risk among Chinese American immigrants increases with length of residence and varies by location in the ...
Sep. 4, 2024 In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial ...
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- Unhealthy Behaviors Contribute to More Coronary Artery Disease Deaths in the Poor
- People Aren't Volunteering as Much These Days: What Gives?
- Reducing the Cultural Bias of AI With One Sentence
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- Framing Climate Action as Patriotic and Status-Quo Friendly Increases Liberals' And Conservatives' Belief in Climate Change
- Belief in Academic Ability Key Factor in Academic Success for Low-Income Students
- 'Out-of-Body' Research Could Lead to New Ways to Promote Social Harmony
Friday, September 6, 2024
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- People Facing Life-or-Death Choice Put Too Much Trust in AI, Study Finds
- At-Risk Butterflies More Likely to Survive With Human Help
- Older Women More Vulnerable to Heat Than Their Male Peers, Researchers Find
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- People's Moral Values Change With the Seasons
- New Research Into Life-Threatening Birth Defect of the Diaphragm
- We Can Be Heroes -- Research Reveals How Ordinary People Can Become 'situational Heroes'
Monday, August 5, 2024
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- When Allocating Scarce Resources With AI, Randomization Can Improve Fairness
- Outsourcing Conservation in Africa
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
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- Charting an Equitable Future for DNA and Ancient DNA Research in Africa
- User Control of Autoplay Can Alter Awareness of Online Video 'rabbit Holes'
- Scientists Call for 'major Initiative' To Study Whether Geoengineering Should Be Used on Glaciers
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- Study Finds US Does Not Have Housing Shortage, but Shortage of Affordable Housing
- Polarization and Risk Perception Could Play Important Roles in Climate-Policy Outcomes
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- Study Offers a Better Way to Make AI Fairer for Everyone
- The Protestant Work Ethic Could Explain a Liking for 'natural' Healthcare
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A Novel Approach to Tracking Conservation Reveals More Areas May Be Conserved Than Currently Accounted for
- Study Reveals High Rate of Drowsy Driving by Teens
- Population Shifts, Risk Factors May Triple U.S. Cardiovascular Disease Costs by 2050
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
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- Mothers Live Longer as Child Mortality Declines
- Should Your Exercise Goals Be in Minutes or Steps? Study Suggests They Are Equally Beneficial
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- 90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change Is Happening
- New Transit Station in Japan Significantly Reduced Cumulative Health Expenditures
- Mixed Public Opinion on Polygenic Embryo Screening for IVF
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- 'Digital Afterlife': Call for Safeguards to Prevent Unwanted 'hauntings' By AI Chatbots of Dead Loved Ones
- 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
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- 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