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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 Alex Knapp, Forbes | 11.19.2012
Last Friday, the great blogger Matt Novak (who you should read often) uncovered evidence that Nikola Tesla, writing in 1935...
By Jenny Barchfield, The Washington Post | 11.15.2012
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian researchers are turning to cloning to help fight the perilous decline of several animal species...
By Amy Wilson, Telegraph [UK] | 11.13.2012
Most entrepreneurs care deeply about their businesses but they’re not usually reduced to tears by a successful sale.
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By Kai Kupferschmidt, Science Insider | 11.13.2012
Animal rights activists in Germany are contesting three patents on genetically engineered chimpanzees granted this year by the European Patent...
By Nathaniel Comfort, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 11.12.2012
"The ultimate ideal sought," wrote Harvey Ernest Jordan in 1912, "is a perfect society constituted of perfect individuals." Jordan, who...
By Monya Baker, Nature | 11.10.2012
If parents have a son’s genes sequenced in hopes of explaining extreme muscle weakness, should they also be told whether...
By Tia Ghose, LiveScience | 11.09.2012
SAN FRANCISCO – Identical twins may not be so identical after all. Even though identical twins supposedly share all of...
By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 11.09.2012
Genes are going mobile. In September, consumer genomics company 23andMe announced it was opening its API, the program that allows...