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French President Emmanuel Macron said "free speech" is "pure bulls---" without guidelines in an attack on social media giants for failing to restrict access for younger users. While speaking at the ...

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic ...

One night in 2020, my attention was stopped while scrolling through Netflix when I saw a highlighted preview of a new documentary called The Social Dilemma. I ended up watching the film and leaving ...

23andMe Research Institute today announced the publication of a new study highlighting the positive health actions taken by people who learned of their risk through direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human activity has caused population crashes carry long-lasting genetic traces of ...

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Grammy‑nominated rapper GloRilla, born Gloria Woods, has found herself at the center of a public dispute about her financial ability and need to help her family. GloRilla's sister Victoria "Scar Face" ...

Eggplant is a globally important vegetable crop, yet its genetic complexity has long limited efforts to improve yield, quality, and stress resistance. In this study, researchers generated ...