Abortion destroys not only human life but human potential. As you note in your editorial “Janet Yellen on Abortion and the Economy” (May 12), abortion deprives the world of the contributions that can ...

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Could it be that human existence depends on gravitational waves? Some key elements in our biological makeup may come from astrophysical events that occur because gravitational waves exist, a research ...

Human life expectancy has potentially been pushed to the max, new research suggests. The recent increase in people's longevity appears to be slowing down despite new developments in medicine, ...

Pro-life demonstrators are seen near the Supreme Court in Washington June 15, 2022. The court overruled the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision in its ruling in the Dobbs case on a Mississippi law ...

Senior Policy Analyst, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing Grace Melton is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing.

Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine. Mortality ...

What is your life worth, in dollar terms? The answers may surprise you. The asking price for murder, for example, is disconcertingly low. The average price of hiring a hitman is A$30,000, estimates ...

Readers weigh in on a fraught question that touches on biology, politics, religion and philosophy. To the Editor: Re “When Does Life Start? A Post-Roe Conundrum” (front page, Jan. 2): When during ...

MIT Technology Review has been asking this question on and off for decades. Here’s a look at one attempt at an answer, from 1954. People have always been fascinated with the question of human ...