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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...

a monkey
By Helen Floersh, Fierce Biotech | 11.10.2023

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent...

a lecture hall
By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 11.10.2023

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...

graphic of a scientist pulling out a particular part of a strand of DNA
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register | 11.10.2023

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.

It’s...

graphic a human head with data points on top of them
By Emile P. Torres, Truthdig | 11.09.2023

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

poctures of Holocaust victims
By Herwig Czech et al. , The Lancet | 11.08.2023

Executive Summary

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...

a sickle cell
By Ned Pagliarulo and Shaun Lucas, BioPharma Dive | 11.08.2023

For most people, red blood cells travel smoothly through the body. Round and flexible, they flow through arteries and veins...

vials of blood
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.08.2023

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she...

map of california
By Garnet Henderson, Rewire News Group | 11.06.2023

“We go in for excessive bleeding and come out missing body parts! How does that make sense?”

For more than...