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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...

selection of embryos
By Jamie Ducharme, TIME | 03.06.2025

After struggling for eight years to have a baby, Shannon Petersen and her husband decided to try in vitro fertilization...

Asilomar beach
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.05.2025

Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash

On a nearly still and moonlit night last week, some 75 people formed a circle...

eugenics graphic
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously...

Elon Musk
By Justin Kirkland, The Guardian | 03.03.2025

Image “Elon Musk” by Debbie Rowe, Royal Society on
Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by S.A. 3.0

I got into...

Stop Forced Sterilization graphic
By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 02.28.2025

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

police officer searches on a keyboard
By Mike Baker, The New York Times | 02.25.2025

As investigators struggled for weeks to find who might have committed the brutal stabbings of four University of Idaho students...

wheel of DNA
By Staff, GMWatch | 02.24.2025

In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy...

graphic of a 'superbaby'
By Staff, The Economist | 02.21.2025

One of the greatest scandals in modern science began with a late-2010s advertisement for HIV-positive couples looking to have children...