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Humans

Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice

Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees, Washington DC, USA - 10 Apr 2018

Technology

Don’t blame academics like me for Facebook’s privacy crisis

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A baby

Health

DNA sequencing of babies is here: Should it be available to all?

Comment

A drone

Technology

US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently

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Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Analysis

Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past?

Humans

Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past?

Leader

A butcher's selling halal meat

Humans

It's time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter

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What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

Leader

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, first cloned monkeys

Life

Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer

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Man walks past weapons

Technology

Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

In our desire to make ethical artificial intelligence, we better be ready for machines that can choose to say no, says Jamais Cascio

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Humans

Power really can corrupt people. Here's what to do about it

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Health

Head transplant mavericks must be scrutinised, not ignored

Leader

Technology

Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash

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Humans

Culture not biology is behind many differences between the sexes

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