Ethics

What your doormat, body odor, or wandering gaze can tell us that we don’t already know.

A controversial new book compiles the evidence on the origin of COVID-19 and demands more investigation.

Can we thwart Beijing’s drive for U.S. secrets without stifling science or harming American innovation?

Designing your child is designing the future. Do it wisely.

Major corporations are applying the lessons of cognitive neuroscience to get the American public buying.

Open-label placebos may defy logic, but scientists explore promising new treatment possibilities.

Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin plans to outsmart a future artificial intelligence and save humanity.

A new book considers how past innovations transformed our food systems.

New research reveals how people feel about being judged by algorithms—and why employees should have first dibs on their data.

Gene editing for performance enhancement may not be the Tokyo cheat, but we asked the experts how far off it might be.

With 27 biological children and three surrogate pregnancies under her belt, it’s all business as usual for Tyra Reeder.

While AI may not end the world the way sci-fi writers imagine, it may very well pull your strings in the near future.

Forty years after a 1981 report hinted at the coming HIV/AIDS pandemic, we look at how the response to global public health threats has changed.

The fast transmission of bad information is dangerous. A new approach employs “infodemiologists” to fight outbreaks.

Tweaking the genes of wild animals could save endangered species and protect humans from disease. What could possibly go wrong?