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This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, a.k.a. Gaétan Dugas, a...
In 1894, science fiction writer, journalist and eugenics proponent H.G. Wells, writing in Nature magazine, called on scientists to “popularize”...
“If I had the choice between a transplant of a synthetic trachea and the firing squad I’d choose the last...
He roamed the streets of Sacramento for six years, raping women as they walked to work or headed home from parties in the...
Science hasn't been able to reliably sort through the biological and environmental variables that distinguish what makes a person unique
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This October, the White House opened its doors to a few thousand people for South by South Lawn, a daylong...
Your cells might be aging faster than you are, and new tests purport to help you find out.
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The debate that followed initial experiments using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool show that old stereotypes about Asia still resonate...