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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...

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By Bertha Coombs, CNBC | 02.18.2025

Starting in his early teens, Deshawn “DJ” Chow wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to live a normal life. Crushing...

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By Blene Woldeselasse, Humans Rights Research Center | 02.18.2025

Three Thai women have been rescued from a human egg trafficking operation in Georgia, run by a Chinese human trafficking...

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By Oriol Güell, El País | 02.17.2025

A “small strand of blood in the poop.” This was the first sign, initially viewed as unimportant, that put Jesús...

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By Mark McLaughlin, The Times | 02.17.2025

Scottish authorities collaborated with a Nazi eugenicist to racially profile Gypsies and Travellers as part of a campaign of “cultural...

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By Matthew Cobb, Nature | 02.17.2025

On 24 February 1975, some 150 people met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds near Monterey on the Californian coast. They...

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By Staff [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], The New York Times Upfront | 02.17.2025

A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...

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By Ben Johnson, Nature | 02.14.2025

A London-based biotech has amassed the world’s largest ethically sourced foundational biodiversity database for training artificial intelligence (AI) by setting...

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By Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic | 02.14.2025

Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

For decades in the united states, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a...