Since the eradication of smallpox approximately 39 years ago, monkeypox virus remains the
most pathogenic poxvirus, being mainly restricted to Central and West Africa. Before 1970 …

Synthetic biology is a new interdisciplinary research area that uses engineering principles
as guidelines for biological investigation. With research goals to modify existing biological …

The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research
and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete …

Social scientists are angry and frustrated. Still. They believe their work is being constrained
and distorted by regulators of ethical practice who neither understand social science …

Protest event analysis is an important method for the study of collective action and social
movements and typically draws on traditional media reports as the data source. We …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Rapid advances in the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have raised
widespread concerns regarding their potential for malicious use. Open-weight LLMs present …

Climate change and coastal urbanization are driving the replacement of natural habitats with
artificial structures and reclaimed land globally. These novel habitats are often poor …

Abstract Safe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and
design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few …

This article aims to bring organizational ignorance to the attention of management scholars
and practitioners and thereby initiate the development of a managerial perspective on the …