Respect for the Unseen

Hadeel Saad shares her ethics & society case study, which she completed as part of our Young Scientist Program. Ethics, when defined by science, is discovering and designing a code of values to guide choices and actions for those in the scientific community. The codes created then serve as an outline for what is morally acceptable in experiments. However, many of these codes were created long ago, and our understanding in nearly every field has altered, yet our ethical codes have […]

October 11, 2017

Outreach: Building Spaceships in Red Hook

BMSIS Young Scientist Liz Miller led an outreach event at the Red Hook Public Library in Red Hook, New York. Beginning with a scale model of the solar system, the children built spaceships with the idea of trying to reach different planets. The activity culminated with a competition to see how far they could “fly” their spaceships. This combination of arts, engineering, and science helped teach about the solar system and space travel. Liz’s engagement was part of her communications […]

October 4, 2017

Count Down To The Future

A new article and podcast by Scientia features five of our young scientists working at the NASA Ames Research Center. Meg Cheng Campbell, Ryan T. Scott, Samantha Torres, Matthew Murray, and Eric Moyer have all worked in the space biosciences division with their research advisors to understand the effects of long-term spaceflight on humans. Congratulations to this outstanding team of scientists! [Read the Scientia article] [Listen to the SciPod podcast]

October 4, 2017

The Ethics of Human Biological Enhancements

Alex Adranly shares his ethics & society case study, which he completed as part of our Young Scientist Program. As human technology has grown, we have used it to control our environment. Now we are entering the stage where we can use technology to enhance human biology. Humans may be able to avoid hazardous diseases altogether and be equipped with enhanced physical and mental traits suitable for the ultimate human prototype. Unfortunately, like every powerful technology, this ability to enhance human […]

October 4, 2017

Ethical Challenges in Developing Artificial Intelligence

Fernando Favoretti shares his ethics & society case study, which he completed as part of our Young Scientist Program. When we hear the words ’Artificial Intelligence’, the idea of intelligent cyborgs, the sky-net, and future terminators comes to mind. With rapid advancement in technology nowadays mostly thanks to the ability to create cheap hardware attached to equally cheap parallel computing systems, artificial intelligence is now capable of developing advancements that were previously only considered to be the fruit of science fiction […]

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