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Pilots get lots of assistance from automation as it is. In the future, they'll get even more.
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis;…
With Gottlieb's departure from the FDA imminent, what should we expect from the FDA? How is it likely to regulate the…
Children can't handle watching livestreamed massacres – and adults shouldn't have to.
Scientists and ethicists have called for a five-year moratorium on editing human genes that will pass on to future generations.…
The Great Red Spot has remained an essentially constant feature of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere for at least the past…
The inquiries can take months of painstaking work, but often yield important insights that improve flight safety for everyone…
Your brain's sensory talents go way beyond those traditional five senses. A team of geoscientists and neurobiologists…
An analysis of flight data shows that problems began at a point when the pilot would normally have engaged the autopilot…
Scientists worldwide are calling for a moratorium on gene editing in germline cells. But what is a germline cell? How does…
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected…
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claimed intent to focus on privacy will be hard to execute, will not happen soon and does not…
In many cities, convention holds that there's a lane for walking and a lane for standing on the escalator. But human…
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own – robots – playing…
Scientific inspiration struck a geologist after many walks through the woods in New York and New England. These ruins hold…
A new strategy for U.S. Cyber Command seeks to block enemies from achieving their objectives – but may not be successful,…
People – individually and in groups – were not as good at facial recognition as an algorithm. But five people plus the…
Ancient DNA allows scientists to learn directly from the remains of people from the past. As this new field takes off, researchers…
Researchers have found a way to evaluate how energy-efficient electric vehicles are, and compare the sizes and costs of…