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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...

Genes and humans
By Erik Parens, Aeon | 11.10.2020

Over the past decade, economists, sociologists and psychologists have begun collaborating with geneticists to investigate how genomic differences among human...

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 11.09.2020

An advocate for using IQ tests to select who is allowed to legally immigrate to the United States has been...

By G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Yujia Zhu, Roger Sik-Yin Foo, Vicki Xafis, Trends in Biotechnology | 11.04.2020

The 2018 revelation of the birth of the first babies whose DNA had been edited shocked the world and was...

Hunting a Glyptodon
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, NewScientist | 11.04.2020

Illustration of Hunters and Glyptodon by Heinrich Harder, 1920, via Wikimedia

A young woman buried with stone tools including spearheads...

Facial recognition camera
By Gregory Barber, Wired | 11.03.2020

IN JUNE, THE school board in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was facing a series of votes on the budget for an...

Book cover
By Shobita Parthasarathy, Nature | 11.02.2020

The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans Anjali Vats Stanford Univ. Press (2020)

In July...

Star of David
By Tate Ryan-Mosley, MIT Technology Review | 11.02.2020

There were 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents reported in the US in 2019—a record-breaking year as tracked by the Anti-Defamation League, and...

Halt sign
By Farah Qaiser, Forbes [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.31.2020

In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...