Digital health is a vital tool: here's how we can make it more sustainable

As the pandemic pushes healthcare online, it’s time to stop overlooking the environmental impacts.

Maddy Thompson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Geography, Keele University • conversation
Aug. 19, 2021 • ~6 min

Exact symbolic artificial intelligence for faster, better assessment of AI fairness

Probabilistic programming language allows for fast, error-free answers to hard AI problems, including fairness.

Rachel Paiste | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
Aug. 9, 2021 • ~6 min

Pescatarians are right – why I say eating fish is more ethical than eating meat

Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.

Martin Cohen, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire • conversation
July 12, 2021 • ~6 min

Pescatarians are right – why eating fish is more ethical than eating meat

Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.

Martin Cohen, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire • conversation
July 12, 2021 • ~6 min

Do we have a moral obligation to live for as long as possible?

If you are shipwrecked on a desert island with no hope of being rescued, you may not be morally obligated to stay alive.

Kimberley Brownlee, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia • conversation
April 28, 2021 • ~12 min

First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem

'Chimera' creatures with human organs could be medically useful – but can we really treat them like other animals?

César Palacios-González, Senior Research Fellow in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford • conversation
April 22, 2021 • ~8 min

Study: Sex differences in Covid-19 mortality vary across racial groups

Black women are more vulnerable than white men, illustrating how race and gender intersect to shape health outcomes.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
April 21, 2021 • ~6 min

We're creating 'humanized pigs' in our ultraclean lab to study human illnesses and treatments

Medical research to benefit people is first conducted in animals. Creating a new biomedical model by inserting human immune cells into pigs may lead to new insights and treatments.

Adeline Boettcher, Technical Writer II, Iowa State University • conversation
April 12, 2021 • ~8 min

Should cyberwar be met with physical force? Moral philosophy can help us decide

Cyber attacks have created new dilemmas for philosophers who determine the ethics of war.

Christopher J. Finlay, Professor in Political Theory, Durham University • conversation
April 7, 2021 • ~8 min

Online translators are sexist – here's how we gave them a little gender sensitivity training

Even the Oxford English Dictionary contains traces of sexism – it's little wonder that our translation tools do too.

Danielle Saunders, Research Student, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge • conversation
March 30, 2021 • ~8 min

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