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/PRNewswire/ -- The 21st annual Kyoto Prize Symposium this week celebrates the three latest laureates of the Kyoto Prize, Japans highest private award for...

Browse Omicron transmission news, research and analysis from The Conversation

Browse Omicron transmission news, research and analysis from The Conversation

Feb. 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month — and likely a flood of posts recognizing the celebration. But what are authors' motivations?

A pig's heart has been used in a human transplant operation - what are the questions to consider?

A pig's heart has been used in a human transplant operation - what are the questions to consider?

From imaging black holes, rovers on Mars, chimeric embryos, and coming up with solutions to plastic pollution, 2021 has been an important year for science.

An overview of compulsory covid vaccination, the arguments made, and the approaches being taken across the world.

Rush by Asia-Pacific countries to slam borders shut over new variant raises questions about pandemic end goal.

There is broad agreement about the need for the development and application of AI to be subject to ethical guidelines and constraints. Equally, there is today little dissent from the view that the way we treat animals should also be guided by ethical considerations. Within the field of AI ethics, however, there is virtually no discussion of how AI impacts animals, nor of the ethical problems to which these impacts may give rise. Self-driving cars that might encounter animals, autonomous killing ...