Site-less clinical trials promise to speed up drug development — but obstacles to in-home data collection abound.

Technology giants should take lessons from the Human Genome Project and be data stewards, not data owners, says Hetan Shah.

Safeguarding our lives online requires skills and experiences that lie beyond masculine stereotypes of the hacker and soldier, says Winifred R. Poster.

Legislation on the testing of self-driving cars does not address liability and safety concerns, warn Ashley Nunes, Bryan Reimer and Joseph F. Coughlin.

Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.

Blockchain could let people offer health records for research — without losing control over them.

In the second part of this interview, Peter Newman the Editor-in-Chief of BMC’s new journal Sustainable Earth, discusses the three Ps of informing policy and how to involve the community in sustainability science and in the journal. Special thanks to Linda Blagg at Curtin University for the filming and recording of the interview.

Prof. Peter Newman, the Editor-in-Chief of BMC’s new journal Sustainable Earth, talks about his motivation for sustainability and the need for a new journal in part 1 of this interview. Special thanks to Linda Blagg at Curtin University for the filming and recording of the interview.

By using the sort of “cheap talk” that people use to strike up strategic collaboration, algorithms can learn to collaborate strategically with people.

Transdisciplinary systems engineering incorporates human and social sciences as well as traditional systems engineering methods to design today's complex systems.

Today's powerful digital technologies can help us keep close tabs on natural systems, Microsoft's chief environmental officer argues in a Nature commentary.