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Technologies
The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...
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Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a...
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In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...
Voters in California have approved US$5.5 billion in funding for stem-cell and other medical research, granting a lifeline to a...
Policies
Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...
Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...
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In Belgrade’s Republic Square, dome-shaped cameras hang prominently on wall fixtures, silently scanning people...
Proposition 14, the California ballot initiative that, if passed, would continue and increase public financing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...
Society
The last couple of weeks have given us some remarkable stories – ludicrous, thought-provoking or both – from around the...
"free 'group' hugs" by j3ssl33 is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...
Dr. Marie Stopes at the time of her marriage to Mr. H.V. Roe, 1918 (cropped). From the Wellcome Library,...
Back of the 50 centime emergency note issued in 1916 by the Merksplas Local Board of the National Assistance and...
Perspectives
A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...
Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are...
There were 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents reported in the US in 2019—a record-breaking year as tracked by the Anti-Defamation League, and...
Last week, the Supreme Court acquiesced to another attack on the voting rights of all Americans. In a 5-3 decision,...