4 August 2021
Discoveries of mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada have prompted new scrutiny of the residential school system – including the role physicians played in unethical experiments, says paediatrician Samir Shaheen-Hussain
5 July 2017
Scientific research may lead to benefits and advances, but they seem to go hand-in-hand with death and destruction. Should we quit while we're ahead?
5 July 2017
As ever more potentially habitable exoplanets are discovered, it's time we asked ourselves: do we have the right to take over another world?
5 July 2017
Future generations risk inheriting an overcrowded, suffocating planet. Taking action may mean what was taboo is now common sense
5 July 2017
We only have one Earth. How far should we go in our attempts to save it from ourselves?
5 July 2017
New forms of life could help tackle problems from famine to global warming, but releasing them into the wild raises biosafety concerns
5 July 2017
Robot soldiers that follow orders, unclouded by human emotions, might reduce casualties in conflicts. But who will take responsibility for their actions?
5 July 2017
The battle between online privacy and national security is reaching fever pitch. Where we end up depends on which Faustian bargains we are willing to strike
5 July 2017
If more people thought and acted in the same way, societies would probably be happier and safer. But at what cost?
5 July 2017
Tweaking genes to prevent your child dying early from a genetic disorder would be acceptable to most people, but we need to ask how far we should go
