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Race, Science & Nature

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

Amy Moran-Thomas

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The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

Jedediah Purdy

Science & Nature, War & Security

Weaponizing Syria’s Water

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

Alisa Reznick

Gender & Sexuality, Science & Nature

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

The FDA has approved an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

Nathan J. Robinson

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Who Owns Molecular Biology?

The patent war for DNA-editing technology

Yarden Katz

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Resisting Antibiotics

The social challenges of drug reform

Robert Bud

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Ghost in the Machine

Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?

Jenny Hendrix

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CRISPR: The Latest Biotech Hype

CRISPR-Cas9 is now the fastest, most sequence-specific technique for the rewriting of genetic information. With all this potential come serious challenges.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

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Too Much Information

Making Transparency Good for You

Elena Fagotto, Archon Fung

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Cold Case

The limits of using DNA to create images of subjects.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Arts in Society, Science & Nature

A Science of Literature

A social scientist's take on the digital humanities.

Ben Merriman

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Toxic Tourism

Photo: Tom Barry According to Mexican tourism officials, magical experiences and eco-adventures

Tom Barry

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