Ethics

Designer Babies Are Here. What’s the Next Edit?

A Chinese scientist engineered kids to resist HIV. Here are other changes that could be on the feature list for Humanity 2.0.

Who Says You Need Permission to Study Yourself?

Sara Riggare can’t finish her PhD because an ethics committee says she needed their approval first.

The Shocking Thing About the Brain

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.