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Technologies
Last month, an A.I. bot that handles tech support for Cursor, an up-and-coming tool for computer programmers, alerted several...
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering...
Gray wolf by Jessica Eirich via Unsplash
“I’m not a scarcity guy, I’m an abundance guy”
– Colossal co-founder and CEO...
The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo.
In...
Policies
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The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from registering children...
The Collins Family, by TeggorMindFish, CC 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...
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A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, Sean Duffy, the newly appointed secretary of the...
A woman in Australia unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after she received another patient’s embryo from her in...
Society
English polymath Francis Galton formulated the concept of eugenics in 1883. Inspired by animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with “desirable”...
The Collins Family, by TeggorMindFish, CC 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Humanity is dying,” billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News anchor...
A Review of Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them by Diane M. Tober
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"Autism Awareness Ribbon" via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held...
Perspectives
The Trump administration reportedly has plans to scrape your private medical data from sources like your doctor, your pharmacy, your...
"The Promise and Peril of CRISPR" cover by Johns Hopkins University Press
As a paediatrician taking care of children with...
Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we...