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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...

Covid vaccine
By Nicholas St. Fleur, Stat | 10.12.2020

The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in...

Vaccination
By Kristen V Brown , Bloomberg | 10.10.2020

Josiah Zayner’s plan was simple: replicate a Covid-19 vaccine that had worked in monkeys, test it on himself and then livestream the...

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 10.09.2020

It would dedicate $1.5 billion of its total to research and therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, epilepsy and...

Youth behind bars
By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 10.09.2020

In a national database in Argentina, tens of thousands of entries detail the names, birthdays, and national IDs of people...

Surveillance camera
By Darren Byler, Noema | 10.08.2020

Preparing For War

Baimurat saw the advertisement for the new job sometime around December 2016. He had come back to...

By John P. Jackson, Jr., Andrew S. Winston, Review of General Psychology | 10.07.2020

Recent discussions have revived old claims that hereditarian research on race differences in intelligence has been subject to a long...

Trump
By Steven W. Thrasher, Scientific American | 10.07.2020

It was a grotesque sight: the president of the United States preening from the White House balcony, his mask pulled...

Crispr cas-9
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 10.07.2020

In July 2019, MIT Technology Review took a break from its usual beats, such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, to...