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By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025
Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...
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...
By A'ndrea Elyse Messer, Penn State News | 02.14.2014
Chicago -- Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 02.14.2014
Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk electrified the science world 10 years ago with his claim that he had created the world’s...
By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 02.13.2014
You grew up on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota. How did Native Americans view tribal membership back then?
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By Corey G. Johnson, The Center for Investigative Reporting | 02.13.2014
A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible for hundreds...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 02.12.2014
The remains of a young boy, ceremonially buried some 12,600 years ago in Montana, have revealed the ancestry of one...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 02.12.2014
Over the last decade, as DNA-sequencing technology has grown ever faster and cheaper, our understanding of the human genome has...
By Brendan Foht, The Public Discourse | 02.11.2014
Late last month, Haruko Obokata and her colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan reported that...
By Jon Xavier, Silicon Valley Business Journal | 02.10.2014
Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil is, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. The relentless inventor —...