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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

a picture of a small village close to Nuuk Greenland
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli, The New York Times | 09.24.2025

For some Greenlanders, sorry isn’t enough.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s...

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By Marianne Lamers, NEMO Kennislink [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.23.2025

Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...

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By Johana Bhuiyan, The Guardian | 09.23.2025

In March 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen was traveling through Chicago’s Midway airport when they were stopped by US border...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.22.2025

On May 26, Tracy Atteberry checked in to the hospital at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The...

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By Charmayne Allison, ABC News | 09.21.2025

It has been seven years since Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui made an announcement that shocked the world's scientists.

He had...

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By Auriane Polge, Science & Vie [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.19.2025

L’idée de pouvoir choisir certaines caractéristiques de son futur enfant a longtemps relevé de la science-fiction ou du débat éthique...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

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By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...