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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...

May centered on Buffalo, NY
By Majua Estevez and Raquel Reichard, Refinery29 | 05.19.2022

Several months before Payton S. Gendron carried out a racist mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, which...

a brown speckled pig in a bucket
By Jonathan Grinstein, Neo.Life | 05.19.2022

The real-life creation of human-animal hybrids, which is on the verge of going from hypothesis to reality, has been the...

Francis Collins
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 05.18.2022

WASHINGTON, DC — In his current role as President Biden’s acting scientific advisor, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, is dealing with...

a person administering a COVID test
By Joanna Thompson, Scientific American | 05.18.2022

Imagine taking a genetic test that could tell you your personal risk of developing complications and dying from a particular...

Dust jacket of the 1920 book The Rising Tide of Color
By Tanvi Misra, Harper's Bazaar | 05.18.2022

The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against
White World-Supremacy
 (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard

On rereading The Great Gatsby earlier...

Surgeon in blue scrubs reaching for surgical tools laid on a blue surface
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.17.2022

Transplant specialists, when evaluating kidneys that come from donors, try to work out how likely it is that the kidney...

a black woman
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.17.2022

In a Zoom call this spring with 19 leaders of A.M.E. Zion church congregations in North Carolina, Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi...

LGBTQ+ Pride Flag
By Shira Stein, Bloomberg Law | 05.17.2022

Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash

The Biden administration is considering a requirement that some health plans cover fertility treatment...