31 Aug 2014:
We tracked debate, ideas and controversy at the sixth annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas at Sydney Opera House – catch up with the conversation
4 Aug 2014:
The dating service defends experiments on users, saying there would be no point employing an ethicist to ‘to wring his hands for $100,000 a year’. By Alex Hern
22 Jul 2014: Matthew Beard: If we don't feel sorrow and anger at the suffering of others, something's wrong. However, a well-cultivated moral sense recognises that you can't own someone else's pain
10 Jul 2014: Ranjana Srivastava: Her defibrillator battery was due for replacement. She also had a terminal illness. Lung cancer or the risk of a cardiac arrest? How does a doctor develop the skills to make such a decision?
4 Jul 2014: Pete Etchells: Lots
of people are up in arms about the recent revelation that Facebook manipulated
news feeds in the name of research. But
we need to look at the bigger picture of the future of digital research
17 Jun 2014: Letters: Prevention of avoidable diseases is starting to look like the only way to save the NHS from bankruptcy, but this requires the NHS to become a behavioural-change organisation that promotes certain lifestyles
US researchers have defended their decision to create a virus similar to the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed about 50 million people. Are they right to have done so?
5 Jun 2014:
Pictures of kittens with plates in their heads are shocking, but we need to approach decisions about animal research with as much objectivity as we can muster, writes Dr Obaro Evuarherhe
We look back at Apple's tech products, including game-changers such as the iMac and iPhone, curiosities like Lisa – and duds, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh