AI Models Have a Troubling Knack for Discovering Legal Loopholes
AIs on their own found ways to exploit regulations and evade current safeguards.
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When Scientific Arguments Obscure Moral Ones, Democracy Suffers
When Scientific Arguments Obscure Moral Ones, Democracy Suffers
The Pentagon's new flu vaccine policy revives a debate over whether to prioritize individual choice or public health.
Major Conference Catches Illicit AI Use - and Rejects Hundreds of Papers
The papers' watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.
Opinion: "Good Science" Needs Purpose, Accountability and an Explicit Ethical Stance
Opinion: "Good Science" Needs Purpose, Accountability and an Explicit Ethical Stance
Professor Marisa Miraldo on the impact of rethinking how we judge scientific excellence. Sharing a manifesto for socially responsible science, she shows how institutions, academics and leaders can use it to take a stand.
Now is Not the Time to Defund Human Fetal Tissue Research
Hindering studies involving fetal tissue will impede the development of the alternatives intended to replace it, while slowing the search for new medicines.
NIH Ends Funding of Research That Uses Human Fetal Tissue from Abortions
NIH Ends Funding of Research That Uses Human Fetal Tissue from Abortions
Fetal tissue has been used to advance research into diabetes, Alzheimer's, infertility and vaccines
Doing good pays off: Environmentally and socially responsible companies drive value and market efficiency
Doing good pays off: Environmentally and socially responsible companies drive value and market efficiency
Based on a global study of 2,636 firms across 31 countries, researchers from Kyushu University provide scientific evidence of the economic benefits of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices
Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer
Refusing to use AI won't protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Exclusive: Retraction-prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts - and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
Science Requires Ethical Oversight - Without Federal Dollars, Society's Health and Safety Are at Risk
Science Requires Ethical Oversight - Without Federal Dollars, Society's Health and Safety Are at Risk
There are several steps between research on seemingly esoteric subjects and breakthrough medical treatments. Ethical oversight at every stage ensures science and society ultimately benefit.
Beyond Science: Barriers for Global South Researchers in International Agricultural Development
Beyond Science: Barriers for Global South Researchers in International Agricultural Development
From stalled visas and travel woes to discrimination, barriers for Global South scientists to participate in the international research community are numerous.
AI Could Pose Pandemic-scale Biosecurity Risks. Here's How to Make It Safer
AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity.
A Multi-model Assessment of Inequality and Climate Change
A Multi-model Assessment of Inequality and Climate Change
Climate change and economic inequality are critical issues, and we still lack understanding of the interaction between them. Multi-model analysis shows how climate policies compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement, including revenue-redistribution schemes, can reduce inequality-particularly in the short and medium terms.
Publishing Nightmare: A Researcher's Quest to Keep His Own Work from Being Plagiarized
Publishing Nightmare: A Researcher's Quest to Keep His Own Work from Being Plagiarized
A scientist reviewing a study spotted figures that looked identical to his own, leading to a frustrating campaign to prevent its publication.
Science should save all, not just some
Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” dominance of the English language, or scientific awards garnered predominantly by Global North scientists. These inequities are pervasive and must be redressed. But there is a bigger problem. The legacy of colonialism in scientific research includes an intellectual property system that favors Global North countries and the big corporations they support. This unfairness shows up in who gets access to the fruits of science and raises the question of who science is designed to serve or save.
$1.5 Million Grant Will Build Global Network to Prevent Exploitation of Indigenous Data
$1.5 Million Grant Will Build Global Network to Prevent Exploitation of Indigenous Data
Researchers are establishing a framework that protects the way Indigenous data is collected and used around the world, thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Is the pay-to-publish model for open access pricing scientists out?
Is the pay-to-publish model for open access pricing scientists out?
Authors are increasingly paying to publish their papers open access. But is it fair or sustainable?
Guidelines on Lab-grown Embryo Models Are Strong Enough to Meet Ethical Standards - and Will Build Trust in Science
Guidelines on Lab-grown Embryo Models Are Strong Enough to Meet Ethical Standards - and Will Build Trust in Science
The UK code of practice for researchers working with stem-cell-based embryo models is designed to both reassure the public and provide valuable guidance to researchers.
In a first, botanists vote to remove offensive plant names from hundreds of species
Enhancing the Right to Science
Enhancing the right to science is increasingly recognized as a central piece in the multi-facetted puzzle of solving the triple planetary crisis. Its role as a cross-cutting catalyst in relation to other human rights dimensions of major global challenges from pandemics, biodiversity, toxics to climate change, calls for far more comprehensive attention to the bundle of rights linking science, scientists and scientific practice to contemporary sustainability responses
Judge Open Science by Its Outcomes, Not Its Outputs
Counting publications does not build equity, integrity and value.
Demands to Include Women in Decisions on the Protection of Human Rights in the Climate Crisis
Demands to Include Women in Decisions on the Protection of Human Rights in the Climate Crisis
In a scientific paper, the researcher from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili’s Department of Public Law, Susana Borràs, discusses the vulnerability and lack of protection of migrant women and children
Misconduct’s forgotten victims
Addressing the link between poor treatment of early-career researchers and academic misconduct.
Policy Makers Believe Money Motivates More Than It Does
Policy Makers Believe Money Motivates More Than It Does
To motivate contributions to public goods, should policy makers employ financial incentives like taxes, fines, subsidies, and rewards? Academic literature suggests the impact of financial incentives is not always positive.
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