Beware the lure of unethical solar power
Solar power may combat climate change, but a damning report suggests it’s not always ethical
Solar energy may be the future. But only if it lets go of the past. International NGO the World Economic Forum...
Ethics
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WHO issues new ethics recommendations for human genome editing
Two new reports on recommended guidelines follow a global consultation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released two new companion reports that provide the first global recommendati...
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How to recognise a super-recogniser
Researchers update face-matching test to find facial recognition experts.
Australian psychologists have developed a new test that aims to identify “super-recognisers” – people with an extraor...
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Conversation
Police debacle with SafeWA COVID tracking app
Police attempted to obtain information from a COVID tracking app – is this legal?
By Tama Leaver. QR code contact-tracing apps are a crucial part of our defence against COVID-19. But their value d...
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95% of cell lines used in clinical research of European descent
Scientists say pre-clinical cellular research needs to be diversified.
The basis for medical research is the pre-clinical research phase, which almost invariably focuses on cellular work i...
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Folbigg 2019 inquiry: guilty finding upheld
Compelling recent scientific evidence remains unexamined by law.
The Australian Academy of Science late yesterday released a statement about the NSW Court of Appeal’s decision to dis...
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Ethics of making human blastocysts in a lab
New research means new cause to revise the ethics of research into early human life stages.
The findings of two papers released today in the journal Nature by two separate research groups – one mainly Australi...
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How much do you value privacy?
Australians, have your say about our security and surveillance regime.
Who has access to the plethora of information collected from surveillance devices, such as CCTV cameras and facial re...
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Cosmos Briefing: Science v law
Experts discuss whether scientific evidence is properly considered in our courts.
Australia’s legal system should reconsider how seriously it regards scientific evidence, according to today’s Cosmos ...
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Wangarĩ Maathai grows a movement
Kenyan scientist and Nobel Prize winner fought for a better environment for African women.
In 1977, more than 40 years before United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York unveiled the Gre...
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Focus
Cosmos Q&A: How far with genome editing?
Maybe we should let the people decide.
An international group of 25 researchers last week called for national and global “citizen assemblies” to be created ...
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Weeding out the political astroturf
AI uses content alone to detect co-ordinated campaigns.
Social media, in case you hadn’t noticed, is a great boon to activists of all forms. Got a message that you want to s...