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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...

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By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2023

Après une période assez défensive dans le secteur de la tech, des dirigeants comme Sam Altman, le père de ChatGPT...

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By Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine | 06.13.2023

In April, researchers in China reported that they had initiated pregnancies in monkeys through a procedure seemingly much like in...

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By Neil C. Hughes, Cybernews | 06.10.2023

Elon Musk's Neuralink recently gained the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval for studying human brain implants. But is...

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By Boyce Upholt, MIT Technology Review | 06.08.2023

Fifty-three million years ago, the Earth was much warmer than it is today. Even the Arctic Ocean was a balmy...

He Jiankui at the 2018 panel where he revealed the news.
By John Ruwitch, NPR | 06.08.2023

BEIJING — In a mostly empty coworking office on the outskirts of China's capital, a scientist whose name is etched...

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By Staff, Alliance for Humane Biotechnology | 06.07.2023

Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

INTRODUCTION

Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of...

A person in a crowd at a black lives matter protest holding up a sign that says "black women's lives matter"
By Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein, NPR | 06.06.2023

Doctors, data scientists and hospital executives believe artificial intelligence may help solve what until now have been intractable problems. AI...

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By Sinead Prince, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog | 06.06.2023

We’ve been discussing the possibility of genetic enhancement, and the ethics of such technology, for some time now. Many people...