Calling all girl gangs 👸 Gift ― errr, I mean holiday ― season is upon us! And what better way to celebrate than by giving the gift of feminist swag? From Phoebe Robinson’s new book You Can’t Touch My
Jacky Tsai takes western comic book heroes and thrusts them into traditional Chinese paintings, to reflect the clashing and melding of the two cultures
'They would say she was too dark': How one photographer is shining a light on racism in the beauty world
Top photographer Alexi Lubomirski despaired that most of his models were white, young and pin thin. So his latest project celebrates beauty in all its shapes, shades and ages. He talks Siân Ranscombe some
It's anonymous. It's ephemeral. It's PostSecret optimized like FarmVille. I have a secret to tell you: There is a mobile app you've probably never heard of that gets 2.5 billion page views a month, substantially
Inevitably someone’s going to ask “WHY IS IT ONLY ACTRESSES EXPLODING? WHY NOT ACTORS?” and say this is misogynistic (see what you’ve done to me, internet?), but for now let’s just enjoy the majesty of
Twenty years ago this fall, Bill Nye came into homes across the U.S. with his TV show, "Bill Nye the Science Guy," and struck a chord with curious …
Because the musical collaborations he pulled off at Bonnaroo weren’t enough, Jim James reunited with The Roots on Tuesday night in Brooklyn. As part …
Call it female empowerment; call it friendship; call it bonding… Whatever you call it, the newest trend in boudoir photography involves “getting your …
It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another Wack Wednesday offering from comedy rap group the Lonely Island (aka Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer). This time, it's "Spell it Out",
Actor, 78 Born in San Francisco and raised throughout northern California, Eastwood attended Los Angeles City College under the G. I. Bill and served as mayor of Carmel, California from 1986 to 1988. the
There was a lot of excitement when Proxima b was discovered – a potentially habitable exoplanet around our nearest neighbour star, Proxima Centauri. …
The better to make friends with. Humans are the only ultrasocial creature on the planet. We have outcompeted, interbred or even killed off all other …
Bigger than a gas giant planet like Jupiter. Smaller than a star. A brown dwarf, sometimes called a "failed star," occupies an interesting middle ground between the two. NASA highlighted an image from
It’s further confirmation that space travel permanently alters our bodies. There are all kinds of experiments going on aboard the International Space Station, but they all probably don't produce results
China's latest mode of public transportation is a bus, tram and train rolled into one. Its maker, Chinese rail transit firm CRRC, is calling it a …
It’s time to go viral. The vaccines we have today are pretty incredible. They've eradicated smallpox, purged rubella from the Americas, and save millions of people each year from dying of diphtheria, whooping
Commentary: The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs decides to mimic the president's tweaking Twitter tactics by editing his new climate change video. Is this just the beginning?
Usually, when astronomers, skywatchers, and space researchers are able to catch a glimpse of something in space it’s cause for celebration — after …
The National Institute of Health recently lifted a moratorium on the creation of human/animal hybrids, which are known as chimeras. While meddling …
Back From The Dead Researchers seem to be setting their sights on increasingly lofty goals when it comes to the human body – from the world’s first …
Fresh ink made him vulnerable to flesh-eating bacteria. There are all kinds of reasons to look before you leap into the ocean. After all, as pollution …
Old photos hold the secrets to the climate change gripping southern Africa, and could hint at what the future holds. Scientists expect Africa to be hardest hit by climate change: its dependence on agriculture,
Donegal is crammed with dramatic beaches, but the adventure it takes to get to Murder Hole makes it extra special. No roads will get you here. You …
Science, like so many other things, has tipping points. Figure out how to isolate and identify one virus and you’re on your way to bagging them all. …
Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich raised funds for the privacy-focused startup, Brave. You may remember Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla who stepped down amid political backlash surrounding his support
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists accelerate particles to the highest energies and in the greatest numbers that humanity has ever achieved. We smash them together at greater than 99.999999%
The void is rocking and rolling with invisible cataclysms. Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes
As reports circulate that Donald Trump is set to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, many people are wondering where it all went …
Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring …
City dwellers are lucky to spot a star or two when they look up at the night sky. That’s because light pollution from traffic and street lights …
Some Earthlings have the silly tendency to think that if they don’t understand something, it must be fake. That includes our influence on the …
Old Drug, New Tricks A small clinical trial from the University of California, San Diego, has just yielded some promising results for those living …
Water is essential to life, so it would make sense that we have a way of distinguishing it from other substances. Thirst is one of the fundamental …
A new experiment shows that long-term exposure to microgravity affects bacteria at the genetic level—conferring reproductive advantages that persist …