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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...

Virus
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.04.2022

The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that...

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women
By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...

cancer cells
By Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022

A tiny change in our DNA that occurred after we evolved away from other primates has made us more prone...

IVF photo
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 05.03.2022

Photo by Pritamprajapati9 via wikimedia

The fertility industry generates approximately US$8 billion in revenue annually and plays a role in...

pregnant Ukrainian woman
By Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.03.2022

Photo by Astaken on Flickr

On Feb. 24, in the early hours of a cold, dark morning in Lviv, two...

a science building with a model of the human brain and skull made of transparent plastic
By Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022

Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash

The work of creating science has been organized for centuries,” wrote Popular Science founder...

harvard university flag
By Cara J. Chang, Isabella B. Cho, Ella L. Jones, And Monique I. Vobecky, The Harvard Crimson | 05.02.2022

Photo by Manu Ros on Unsplash

Harvard’s campus is replete with the names of prominent historical figures who were essential...

tangle of tree roots
By Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker | 05.02.2022

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete...