In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law (Radharc Images/Alamy). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the ...

On April 25th of this year [2003], we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the elucidation of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick, an accomplishment of which we are all extremely proud—and ...

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Warning: This post contains explicit language. When President Donald Trump, frustrated during a bipartisan immigration meeting in the White House, reportedly asked last month why the U.S. was ...

To encourage scientists to speak up when people misuse science to serve political agendas, biology professor Mark Peifer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that eugenics should ...