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By Maia Hibbett, Wired | 09.09.2026
THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conservatory-trained viola...
By Terence Keel, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 09.06.2026
This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...
By L. Jim Thomas, The Huffington Post | 06.06.2013
There is less than a day to go before the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com hands hundreds of thousands of dollars...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 06.05.2013
One of the many ways in which humans' evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.05.2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced...
By Roque Planas, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2013
When a woman identified by the pseudonym of Minelva entered Pacific Colony, a California “home for the feebleminded,” she had...
By Liza Gross, KQED | 06.05.2013
Last month, hundreds of experts who study human-environment interactions called on policymakers to take immediate action to curb humanity’s ecologically...
By Lundy Braun, Brown University | 06.03.2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Lundy Braun studies racial health disparities and their history as a professor of both pathology...
By Emily Bazelon, Slate | 06.03.2013
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time. It’s the science behind many exonerations, and many more guilty...
By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 06.03.2013
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the right of authorities to take DNA from people when they...