Just as AI and other cutting-edge tools create unprecedented opportunities for understanding and protecting nonhuman animals, they also pose serious risks of further manipulation and exploitation.

Thomas White is a scientific advisor for the environmental charity Invertebrates Australia, and receives funding from The Australian Research Council. The brain is an evolutionary marvel. By shifting ...

Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives. Credit...Photo Illustration by Zachary Scott Supported by By Bill Wasik and ...

Transgenic organisms are living beings whose genetic material has been artificially modified by introducing genes from another species. This process, known as transgenesis, allows for the transfer of ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...