There is a large body of research demonstrating and delineating the complex moral instincts of young children, including babies far too young for these to have been socialized into them. Babies ...

"Each deployment of genocide or famine against American-backed targets degrades the credibility of the terms." ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that large language models struggle ...

Enhancement technologies offer the promise of improving the quality of human life, physically, cognitively, emotionally, perhaps even morally — some of which could, in principle, be compatible with an ...

On December 10, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will reach its three-quarters of a century milestone. Adopted on the same day by the UN General Assembly in 1948, the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Chimpanzee research is a hot topic this ...

Scientists have created the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells in an attempt to investigate how the two types of cell develop alongside each other. The embryos, which were derived ...

In the popular imagination, there is still quite a widespread assumption that religion is the source of morality. This is typically based on a belief that religion transmits the moral edicts of a ...