Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2024
What social robots can teach America's students
How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot?
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Environment
Jan 12, 2024
First, do no harm: Guidance for community-engaged research after disasters
After disasters, the people impacted are often called upon to participate in scientific research, but researchers can easily forget that participants are more than study subjects: They are survivors. Disasters are traumatic, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2023
Eggs from men, sperm from women: How stem cell science may change how we reproduce
It may soon be possible to coax human skin cells into becoming functional eggs and sperm using a technique known as "in vitro gametogenesis." This involves the creation (genesis) of eggs and sperm (gametes) outside the human ...
Education
Dec 4, 2023
Researchers: Australia has its first framework for AI use in schools, but it needs to proceed with caution
Federal and state governments have just released a national framework for generative AI in schools. This paves the way for generative AI—algorithms that can create new content—to be used routinely in classrooms around ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2023
Cross-cultural mentoring to enhance education for Samoan infants and toddlers in Aotearoa
New research led by AUT academics shows how to enhance early childhood education for Samoan pepe meamea (infants and toddlers)—the majority of whom are taught in English-medium centers.
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2023
The Ethical Slut has been called 'the bible' of non-monogamy—but its sexual utopia is oversimplified
In 2022, University of Melbourne evolutionary psychologist Dr. Khandis Blake estimated that among young people, "around 4-5 percent of people might be involved in a polyamorous relationship, and about 20 percent have probably ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2023
Framework provides guidance for ethical wildlife management
Wildlife management decisions and practices face increasing ethical scrutiny. In research published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, investigators have developed a framework for incorporating ethical considerations ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2023
Q&A: New tool supports private industry in minimizing impacts to nature's services
Companies and investors are increasingly considering, and measuring, the impacts of their business activities on nature, or "natural capital" (the world's stock of natural assets like air, water, soil, and biodiversity). ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2023
Examining ethical considerations for human remains
In 2022, the Penn Museum announced that it would rebury the skulls of dozens of Black Philadelphian individuals whose remains were unethically obtained in the mid-1800s. Some in the community of the individuals' descendants, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2023
Balancing social missions with profitability
A study in the International Journal of Business Excellence has revealed how accountability in the performance of social village-owned enterprises (VOEs) is critical to their meeting both their social mission and achieving ...
