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THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola player from Chongqing, China, a lover of science fiction, and an aspiring member of the US Army Reserve Officer Training...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation...

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health...

a poster showing eugenic idea "only healthy seed must be sown"
By Marcia Langton, National Indigenous Times | 09.22.2026

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said "they're the most primitive race on...

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By Ann E. Marimow and J. David Goodman, The New York Times | 09.22.2026

Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday refused to intervene in a high-profile custody battle that involved difficult questions surrounding surrogacy and...

graphic depicting genetic selection by a physician
By Gaia Ghirardi, Arno Van Hootegem & K. Paige Harden , Nature Human Behaviour | 09.21.2026

Embryo screening for behavioural traits is no longer speculative. If you want to become a parent in the USA today...

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By Miryam Naddaf, Nature | 09.21.2026

A wave of epigenetic therapies is offering hope as ways to cure chronic hepatitis B — a lingering liver infection...

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By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN | 09.18.2026

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set...

tree with eugenic ideology displayed
By Anna L. Philippe, Pop Panic | 09.17.2026

What does it mean when education is considered a threat to population? As an education student, I am interested in...

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By Karen Weintraub, Endpoints News | 09.16.2026

To better understand certain neuropsychiatric disorders, researchers at Stanford University have bred rodents that lack a cortex and hippocampus and...

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By Ava Kofman, The New Yorker | 09.15.2026

A WOMAN WHO ACTS AS A SURROGATE, carrying a child for someone else, is said to be going on a...