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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...

"stop forced sterilization" poster
By Cristina Escobar, Refinery29 | 04.30.2021

“Stop Forced Sterilization” poster by Rachael Romero, San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1977
Courtesy of Rachael Romero through Library of Congress...

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By Jill Cowan, New York Times | 04.28.2021

On Friday, the former state lawmaker Rob Bonta officially became California’s attorney general, stepping into a role that has served...

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By Amy Maxmen, Nature | 04.28.2021

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On a hazy day in November, Hardeep Singh received a text message from the...

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By Karen Weintraub, USA Today | 04.25.2021

BOSTON — Thomas Feldborg and Daria Rokina set off nearly every afternoon to explore this city. They leave from their hotel...

scissors and DNA
By Amanda Winkler, Freethink | 04.24.2021

The gene-editing system, CRISPR-Cas9, is truly revolutionizing medicine: in the future, it may help us eradicate ailments from sickle cell...

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By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.23.2021

At the turn of the 20th century, a German horse took Europe by storm. Clever Hans, as he was known...

African girl getting vaccine
By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian | 04.23.2021

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A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in ...

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By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.22.2021