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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...

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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...

the cover of The Genetic Lottery. A book by Kathryn Paige Harden
By Kathryn Paige Harden et al., The New York Review | 05.25.2022

In response to:

Why Biology Is Not Destiny from the April 21, 2022 issue

To the Editors:

Marcus Feldman...

microscopes in lab
By Janet D. Stemwedel , The Scientific American | 05.24.2022

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The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened...

a person holding a white protest sign that says "disarm mass killer ban assault weapons" this is at a protest
By Megan Molteni, STAT | 05.23.2022

Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and...

Grayscale graphic of Eugenics tree
By Benedict Ipgrave, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Marcy Darnovsky, Subhadra Das, Charlene Galarneau, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Nora Ellen Groce, Tony Platt, Milton Reynolds, Marius Turda, Robert A Wilson, The Lancet | 05.21.2022

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...

Hundred dollar bills
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 05.20.2022

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

The directors of the $12 billion California stem cell agency are looking for a...

Logo of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 05.20.2022

The fertility watchdog is considering whether to recommend scrapping anonymity for future sperm and egg donors as part of an...

Silhouettes of 4 people layered on the left, chunk of genetic code in between 2 DNA helices overlapping a graphic of Earth
By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2022

Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr

Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified...

Doctor speaking to pregnant woman in exam room
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 05.20.2022

Pregnancy, in this age of modern medicine, comes with a series of routinely recommended prenatal tests: At 11 weeks, a...