Define an international doctrine for cyberspace skirmishes before they escalate into conventional warfare, urge Mariarosaria Taddeo and Luciano Floridi.

In response to blood-glucose levels, the artificial pancreas would determine how much insulin should be automatically administered--promising better quality of life for individuals with type 1 diabetes.

Machine learning can be used to predict a patient’s risk of cardiac death based on a combination of clinical variables.

Brain tumors are very diverse entities, and more accurate classification is challenging, but important for appropriate treatment. Using unique tumor features captured in DNA methylation profiles, a new open AI platform provides a tool for brain tumor classification.

An algorithm that can classify skin lesions from images could improve skin-cancer screening.

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.