A pair of hot blobs under Africa and the Pacific would explain a lot.

For all the talk about settling Mars, the Moon, or other extraterrestrial environments, it’s interesting that no one ever ...

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans ...

The new study says that sperm donation after death is possible — and even the right thing to do. Fertility treatment via a ...

If a person gets sick, healers within the Santería tradition do spiritual cleansing to try to return somebody to health, ...

The International Academy of Bioethical Inquiry was established in 2015 and since then has functioned under the auspices of Saint Louis University and the Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. In line ...

The heart of Africa just became ground zero for one of the most ambitious experiments in “ethical AI” in global health—and if any country has earned the right to lead this work, it is Rwanda. Over the ...

Forty years later, Cheryl McNair remembers the shock of watching the Challenger space shuttle fall to pieces with her husband, astronaut Ronald McNair, onboard. “Now what?” Cheryl McNair, now in her ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues are known as ethical, legal and social issues, or “ELSI” for short, and ...

Missouri Planned Parenthood clinics can currently perform procedural abortions but state laws limit the scope of care, and medication abortion is blocked. A trial in Jackson County could clarify which ...