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How society convinced us that childbearing is morally wrong without a fat budget.
We finally have some good news about housing affordability.
Why the $14 drug could reshape global health.
Protecting astronauts in space — and maybe even Mars — will help transform health on Earth.
Scientists are keeping their climate work alive by any other name.
This could be the future of foreign aid. Or a total disaster.
Hint: The best educational choice you can make for your child might not focus on your child at all.
Space barons like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don’t seem religious. But their quest to colonize outer space is.
The world’s poorest countries are paying the price for a war they didn’t start.
We have the tools to end the virus. The question is whether we’ll abandon them.
We can see a future without the disease. But can we get there?
How meat became a measure of manhood.
How one number explains how we’re winning the 60-year war on smoking.
How to think about what’s best for your child — and for all the other children, too.
How AI-generated email creates a synthetic version of you.
The AI hype is real. We’re not prepared for what’s next.
The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement
Can MLB split the difference between humans and machines?
The battle over what OpenAI owes the public.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
After years on psychiatric drugs, some ask if they owe it to themselves to try coming off the medication.
How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.
A new theory about why human beings evolved the need to feel purpose.
Paul Ehrlich predicted hundreds of millions would starve thanks to overpopulation. Here’s what actually happened.
4 billion people are fed by fossil fuels. The Iran war is showing just how fragile that is.
The response to the Texas Senate candidate’s comments on animal welfare highlight the challenge of talking about meat in US politics.
What people really think about plant-based dairy.
You don’t have to give up on a profession you love and become a plumber.
Why the telephone is the most important technology you’ve stopped thinking about.
The ingredient that feeds the planet’s crops just got stuck in war.
Revealed in one chart.
Getting aid to civilians during wartime is difficult. Here’s the best approach.
AI is already a weapon of mass fraud.
Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.
How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.
RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.
How to think about long-term use, dependence, and withdrawal — according to a professional.
The very old law that might just save these beagles.
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