Features

• Categorized in Policy

  Why can’t tech fix its gender problem?

  A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer, may finally bring change.
• Categorized in Policy

  The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online

  People learned about the decision on the same devices they’ll use to help those in need circumvent it.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  Inside the race to make human sex cells in the lab

  Scientists might soon be able to create eggs and sperm from skin and blood cells. What will that mean?
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system

  A handful of immunologists are pushing the field to take attributes such as sex chromosomes, sex hormones, and reproductive tissues into account.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  What to expect when you’re expecting an extra X or Y chromosome

  Prenatal genetic tests can detect sex chromosome aberrations, but what happens after—for families and children—is anything but clear.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Exposing the messy, technologized, and undervalued nature of reproductive labor

  Artist Ani Liu’s work stands out for the precision with which it zeroes in on the frustrations of 21st-century motherhood.
• Categorized in Smart cities

  A Chicago city sensor project goes global

  The Array of Things has now become an open-source resource for atmospheric monitoring, earthquake sensing, and a range of other applications.
• Categorized in Computing

  Software can do better than ‘male,’ ‘female,’ and ‘other’

  Providing more-expansive gender options is not a difficult coding problem.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  Embryos could count as people too in our post-Roe world

  Post-Dobbs, amidst a rise in laws establishing "fetal personhood," fertility doctors and their patients fear for the future of IVF.