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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...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.13.2021

A team of scientists and entrepreneurs announced on Monday that they have started a new company to genetically resurrect the...

DNA inside of a dollar bill
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 09.13.2021

The folks in Orange Cove in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley care about the cost of health care. It is...

Earth wearing a face mask
By Jay S. Kaufman, The New York Times | 09.10.2021

In the winter of 1848, a 26-year-old Prussian pathologist named Rudolf Virchow was sent to investigate a typhus epidemic raging...

Uyghur man
By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 09.09.2021

Two respected scientific journals have retracted two articles that relied on the DNA samples of Uyghurs in western China after...

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By Emma Betuel, TechCrunch | 09.09.2021

The CRISPR-based biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences is officially a unicorn, the company says. 

The billion-dollar valuation comes on the back...

Los Angeles police
By Sam Levin, The Guardian | 09.08.2021

The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they...

By Priyanka A. Chokhani, The Times of India | 09.02.2021

NEW DELHI: When the pandemic shut down their auto-parts supply business in Maharashtra last year, Sheetal pawned her gold jewellery...

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 09.02.2021

India has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine that uses circular strands of DNA to prime the immune system against the...