Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. In his hands-on, skill-building course, professor Das ...

In 2007, Christoph Bartneck, a robotics professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, decided to stage an experiment loosely based on the famous (and infamous) Milgram obedience study. In ...

Back in May we asked readers to join an unusual experiment in participatory journalism. We published a draft of my article about “continuous computing” on a satellite blog and invited blog visitors to ...

It is well-documented that some birds can build tools, but it was never really sure if this information was ever passed down to birds or if it was acquired in a different way. A study revealed that ...

CBS stations in Pittsburgh, Dallas and Chicago conducted an experiment to find out the amount of bacteria and mold, if any, living on and in our beloved single-serve coffee Keurig machines. Their ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Director Dr. Kim Budil speaks during a news conference with fellow administrators and scientists at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...

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