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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...

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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...

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By Ruth Reader, Fast Company | 09.27.2021

On the eighth night of Hanukkah last year, Barry Honig saw light. He could see the shape of the menorah...

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By Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian | 09.25.2021

For 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a daughter and...

By Natalie Ram, Erin E. Murphy, and Sonia M. Suter, Science | 09.24.2021

In May 2021, Maryland enacted the first law in the United States—and in the world—that comprehensively regulates law enforcement’s use...

Science article on eugenics 1921
By Adam Rutherford, Science | 09.24.2021

A century ago this week, 300 scientists, policy-makers, and campaigners gathered at the American Museum of Natural History in New...

Cover of "The Genetic Lottery" by Kathryn Page Harden
By Aaron Panofsky, Science | 09.24.2021

Behavior genetics, its forbear eugenics, and its cousins sociobiology and evolutionary psychology have always been political sciences. When not being...

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By Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN Business | 09.23.2021

Photo by Max Morse for TechCrunch

A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the...

Arched gothic entrance to Royal Court of Justice in London
By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press | 09.23.2021

A woman with Down syndrome lost a court challenge against the British government Thursday over a law allowing the abortion...

Lab grown meat in a petri dish
By Joe Fassler, The Counter | 09.22.2021

Paul Wood didn’t buy it.

For years, the former pharmaceutical industry executive watched from the sidelines as biotech startups raked...