In science, ethical guidelines ensure that research takes place in a way that respects public trust and is conducted ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues are known as ethical, legal and social issues, or “ELSI” for short, and ...

Synopsis. Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing ...

The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff. In a new ...

We have known for a long time that people tend to paint a rosy picture of how good they are. Now we know that scientists are no exception, at least when it comes to conducting their own research. This ...

Over the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, the world’s temperatures hovered near 1.5° C above pre-industrial temperatures, and the catastrophic weather events that ensued provided a preview of what might ...

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) has received $9.4 million in funding for a five-year expansion of the Center for Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) and Center for Resources ...

Technology ethics is the application of ethical thinking to the practical concerns of technology. The reason technology ethics is growing in prominence is that new technologies give us more power to ...