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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th 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...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

A woman waking and stretching
By Ross Pomeroy, Big Think | 03.28.2022

Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash

Too many Americans are sleep-deprived. Although the overwhelming majority of adults needs at least seven...

4 pregnant women dressed in robes, standing in line; grayscale
By Bianca Facchinei, Newsy [cites CGS' Emily Galpern] | 03.25.2022

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The war in Ukraine has disrupted trade and threatened the global economy, from oil to...

Eugenics tree diagram
By Science News Staff, Science News | 03.24.2022

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In late 2019, with the 100th birthday of Science News a few years off, our team considered...

tweezers are used to take a DNA strand apart
By Tim Brinkhof, Big Think [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.23.2022

George Church is one of the world’s most famous pioneers of genetics and biotechnology. He has made colossal contributions to...

sickle cell blood smear
By Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker | 03.22.2022

In September, 1904, a twenty-year-old Grenadian man named Walter Clement Noel disembarked in New York after an eight-day voyage from...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 03.22.2022

In its final stages, the neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can bring extreme isolation. People lose control of their...

Person in black uniform typing on a laptop
By Troy Closson, The New York Times | 03.22.2022

Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over...

a human hand with tech imbedded in it.
By Susan B. Levin, Slate | 03.22.2022

If, through biotechnology, we could drastically enhance ourselves—such that our ability to absorb and manipulate information was unlimited, we experienced...