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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 Hannah Barnes, BBC News | 08.31.2012
Scientists, lawyers and politicians have raised new concerns over the quality of forensic evidence testing - so is the criminal...
By Stephen Adams, Telegraph [UK] | 08.28.2012
They are spending up to £30,000 a time on trips to New York, to guarantee a boy or a girl...
By Gilbert Reilhac, Reuters | 08.28.2012
(Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Italy violated the rights of a couple carrying...
By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.25.2012
Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan stared at a printout of gene sequences from a man with cancer, a subject in one...
By Paul Rincon, BBC News | 08.24.2012
Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye colour of a possible suspect using...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 08.24.2012
A U.S. appeals court today upheld the legality of federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)—the latest in...
By Eric Adelson, Yahoo News | 08.24.2012
It was a good week for the drug police. Lance Armstrong dropped his fight against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, and...
By Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon | 08.23.2012
While a draft plank in the Republican Party’s platform supporting a constitutional amendment banning abortion has gotten plenty of attention...