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surface of Mars

Life

The ethics issue: Should we colonise other planets?

As ever more potentially habitable exoplanets are discovered, it's time we asked ourselves: do we have the right to take over another world?

futuristic lab

Life

The ethics issue: Should we stop doing science?

Hands of parents and a baby

Health

Questions raised over 3-parent baby procedure last year

collection box

Health

How to be good: Can science show us how to save the world?

Campaigner for Chelsea Manning

Humans

Obama has finally done the right thing by freeing Manning early

scales

Health

Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can?

car artwork

Technology

Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals

exclusion zone

Health

Is historic Soviet radiation health data too hot to handle?

shop dummies

Life

Required: A moral vision for gene editing

argue artwork

Humans

Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

Machines that can use facts to present a convincing case could transform the way we make decisions 鈥� and help us understand our own rhetoric

Humans

The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing

Humans

Save the driver or pedestrian? Such robot car dilemmas are folly

Health

Subsidised egg freezing isn鈥檛 the answer to Japan’s birth rate

Health

Why would scientists want to build human genomes from scratch?