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Here are the lessons we’ve learned so far about the keys to virtual science education—including what to do about lab classes.

Fast science—with all its warts—is making unprecedented progress in the fight against COVID-19.

If governments were to use SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests to manage who can re-enter the workplace, society must accept a sacrifice of privacy.

Scientists can provide essential information to educate the public about the coronavirus.

In the midst of a pandemic, individual patients are not always the focus of the ethics discussions.

The science isn’t there yet, nor are the known interventions that ought to be combined with delivering such predictions.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

As artificial life forms become more sophisticated, we propose a simple list of criteria to determine whether synthetic biological organisms and robots are living beings.

Despite a premature and ethically sketchy claim of genome editing in twin girls, an outright prohibition could blunt promising, responsible progress.