Over the past decade, earning an ophthalmology residency spot has become more difficult and competitive. 1 Between 2021 and ...

Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front. Big Oil has tried five ...

Since the advent of DNA testing, law enforcement agencies have been able to prosecute crimes - and exonerate the wrongly convicted - with greater certainty than ever before. Though not perfect, ...

Last week, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, the biggest wave of new information on the accused sex trafficker since his former ...

Recent ethical concerns involving Detroit officials have highlighted weaknesses in the city's conflict-of-interest rules. Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield is under scrutiny for voting on millions in ...

Ethics of Artificial Hydration and Nutrition In Dementia Ethicist Art Caplan discusses a difficult case involving artificial feeding and hydration for a dementia patient.

Three elected judges in Louisiana are leveraging a new privacy law to remove their home addresses and spouse’s work addresses from the state’s public campaign finance database that tracks political ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Alexandra Macias, a political science professor at CSUN, has long upheld the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) when lecturing in her classes. The commission, whose creation was ...

The new rules would force AI companies to verify whether users are over 18. The new rules would force AI companies to verify whether users are over 18. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, ...

Abstract: Ethics in robotics is an increasingly topical issue due to the significant recent advances, especially in artificial intelligence. Soft robots represent a subgroup of robots that must be ...

Q: Is President Donald Trump paying in full for the new ballroom at the White House, and what is the cost? A: The White House said Trump and “other patriot donors” would pay for the ballroom, which ...