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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...

Jennifer Doudna
By David Pogue, CBS News | 03.07.2021

When Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, there was no black-tie ceremony in Sweden. Because...

By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News | 03.04.2021

It’s been two decades since the Human Genome Project first unveiled a rough draft of our genetic instruction book. The...

By Staff, The Economist | 03.03.2021

Every time one of America’s genetic-testing companies advertises a deal on DNA kits, Michael (not his real name) braces himself...

Alice Wong video
By Alice Wong, Mashable | 03.03.2021

There are two major lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Alice Wong, founder and director of...

A trans flag
By Evan Urquhart, Slate | 03.03.2021

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

A huge wave of anti-transgender legislation is coursing through statehouses in the early months...

By Kate Womersley, Prospect | 03.03.2021

It’s a familiar story: the virile sperm fights its path through the hostile uterus to the passive female egg. After...

COVID test
By Walter Isaacson, STAT | 03.03.2021

In early January 2020, Feng Zhang, a gene-editing researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, started getting emails...

Robot arm
By Vivek Wadhwa, Tarun Wadhwa, Foreign Policy | 03.01.2021

A century’s worth of change is about to be squeezed into a single decade. By 2030, entire industries are likely...