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The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent decision that the disposal or destruction of embryos created through in vitro fertilization may be considered as wrongful deaths comes as a result of the anti-abortion movement’s years of advocating that embryos and fetuses should be conferred legal rights starting at conception. Though right-wing media have long pushed the dubious legal merits of “fetal personhood,” some conservative media and anti-abortion advocacy groups are shying away from commenti...

This essay is a companion piece to an episode of Radiolab, titled The Interstitium, coming Friday, November 17. You don’t need to have heard it for this

It isn’t just species that are going extinct – it's the worlds they are part of and that they host that are also disappearing

Swedish scientist Arne Müntzing used two plant species to make a hybrid that underwent chromosome doubling to produce hempnettle, a member of the mint family.

New publication: More-than-Human LONDON .- The More-than-Human reader brings together texts by writers across a wide array of disciplines that serve to reflect on the state of post-anthropocentric thinking today. Focusing on the ecologies and technologies of climate injustice and inequalities, as well as the destructive structures lurking within anthropocentrism, More-than-Human proposes complex entanglements, frictions, and reparative attention across species and beings. Thinking past the cent...