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This is the 10th 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...

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a forthcoming “One...

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement...

In the U.S., it’s illegal to edit genes in human embryos with the intention of creating a genetically engineered baby...

100 dollar bills
By Angela Saini, Undark | 12.16.2022

In 1961, a new journal of ethnology and anthropology appeared on academic bookshelves. Nearly every page betrayed an obsession with...

black lives matter protest
By Charles M. Blow, Undark | 12.15.2022

n his 1940 essay “Dusk of Dawn,” the renowned scholar W.E.B. Du Bois reflected back to his early-career...

ivf taking place in a Petrie dish
By Caitlin Huey-Burns, CBS News | 12.15.2022

While the prospects of codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law face high hurdles, Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing...

genes in a syringe
By Gemma Conroy, Nature | 12.14.2022

In a landmark 1972 paper1, physician Theodore Friedmann and biochemist Richard Roblin foresaw a future in which DNA could be...

police man using a computer
By Jonathan Moens, Undark | 12.14.2022

In October of this year, police officials in Edmonton, Canada were struggling to solve a 2019 sexual assault case in...

cancer cells
By Rob Stein, NPR | 12.13.2022

Katie Pope Kopp went through round after round of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to treat her non-Hodgkin lymphoma...

a person of African descent standing against a pole
By Jenni Quilter, Slate | 12.13.2022

Most people understand in-vitro fertilization to be privilege for the wealthy, the well-insured, or those living in a country with...

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By Metro Tech Reporter, Metro | 12.13.2022

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This is the world’s first artificial womb facility – and it lets you choose...