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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...

Africa on a globe
By ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer et al., Nature | 03.15.2022

Image by James Wiseman on Unsplash

Sleeper fish (Bostrychus africanus) are a staple food in West Africa. Harvesting...

Françoise Baylis
By Andrew Riley and Caitlyn MacDonald, Dal News | 03.15.2022

Françoise Baylis, photo by XhenetaM,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two of Dalhousie’s leading researchers are being honoured...

lab mouse sitting in a gloved hand
By Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine | 03.14.2022

A team of researchers have successfully raised a mouse into adulthood that was produced from a single unfertilized egg. 

This...

Buildings in Kyiv Ukraine
By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova, The New York Times | 03.12.2022

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Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim...

close of of $100 bills
By Paul Schloesser, Endpoints News | 03.11.2022

Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash

Four years after the FDA admonished stem cell clinic StemGenex for making dubious claims...

Illustration of Christmas Island Rat
By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.09.2022

"n364_w1150" by BioDivLibrary is marked with CC PDM 1.0.

An extinct rat that once lived on an...

plastic model of a human heart
By Lauran Neergaard and Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press | 03.09.2022

Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two...

Patient's brain scan
By Alison Abbott, Nature | 03.09.2022

Brain scan by Philippi et al via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Every two weeks, a nurse visits 43-year-old...