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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...

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By Daniel Hildebrand, The Humanist | 10.01.2025

When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...

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By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2025

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are...

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By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.29.2025

According to an article on BBC News, the Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin...

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By Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian | 09.28.2025

Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could...

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By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

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By Katherine Bourzac, Nature | 09.25.2025

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as...

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By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli, The New York Times | 09.24.2025

For some Greenlanders, sorry isn’t enough.

The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, made a special visit Wednesday to Greenland’s...

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By Marianne Lamers, NEMO Kennislink [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 09.23.2025

Een rijtje gespreide vulva’s gaapt de bezoeker aan. Zó ziet een bevalling eruit, en zó een baarmoeder met foetus. Een...