Time for a ban on certain sorts of genetic engineering?
Scientists recently captured mainstream media attention with calls for a ban on human germline editing – the genetic engineering of human DNA passed on from one generation to the next. The scientists are deeply concerned about the ethical and safety...
Synthetic biology
The field is evolving so rapidly that even scientists working in it don’t agree on a definition, but in essence synthetic biology (synbio) is an extreme version of genetic engineering. Instead of swapping genes from one species to another (as in genetic engineering),...
Doomsday Clock edges closer to midnight as risks of emerging tech go unchecked
This year the Doomsday Clock was set at three minutes to midnight, two minutes closer to catastrophe than in 2014. The members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board cited unchecked climate change, nuclear weapons and emerging...
Government’s deregulatory extremism puts public at risk
We are surrounded by regulation. Every moment of our waking and sleeping lives is populated with a vast regulatory network. There are thousands of regulations relating to our homes, our clothes, our foods, the way we drive, the places we work, the wages we receive,...Crazytech
Stupid technologies we don't need.....
And that could destroy life on Earth.
And that could destroy life on Earth.