James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange ...

Chinese scientist He Jiankui sent shockwaves around the world last year with his claim that he had modified twin babies' DNA before their birth. The modification was made with gene editing tool CRISPR ...

It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

The realm of scientific and psychological experimentation often dances on the edge of ethics and legality. Many experiments ...

A large study across 13 experiments with over 8,000 participants shows that people are far more likely to act dishonestly when they can delegate tasks to AI rather than do them themselves.

History is replete with notorious experiments which, quite rightly, would not be performed today. The "Little Albert" experiment takes a prominent place in the list, alongside the infamous Milgram ...

SOME trials of chemical agents on human volunteers at Porton Down laboratories were unethical, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday.

As part of a challenge study conducted during the pandemic, 34 healthy volunteers were deliberately infected with SARS-CoV-2 to assess the potential cognitive impacts of COVID-19. Everything about the ...

Chloe Cole was subjected to hormones and a double mastectomy. Her injuries need to be acknowledged.