Science

The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT...

MOVIE: Another outdoor movie night hosted by Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District features “The Addams Family” from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 4, at Heritage Station. Bring blanket...

In Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction (Dark Ink, AM Ink Publishing), Editor Rebecca Rowland has selected a diverse array of stories from the short and sweet to longer ruminative...

Yizhar Hess did an injustice in the op-ed section of this newspaper and in Makor Rishon on Friday when he called Ron Dermer, Israel’s former ambassador to the US, a...

<img class="caas-img has-preview" alt="Biological factors shape sexual preference. Rawpixel.com/SHutterstock.com" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/5.Qz7iPI5B1Yey91N4arlw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MC40ODk1ODMzMzMzMzMz/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/iG4socjl0WVHs5RgMI7YKA--~B/aD05NjE7dz0xNDQwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_conversation_us_articles_815/ea38579ec40a8ca6c30b4c528e795ceb" data-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/5.Qz7iPI5B1Yey91N4arlw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3MC40ODk1ODMzMzMzMzMz/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/iG4socjl0WVHs5RgMI7YKA--~B/aD05NjE7dz0xNDQwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_conversation_us_articles_815/ea38579ec40a8ca6c30b4c528e795ceb">Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having same-sex relations. In the U.S., 1% to 2.2% of women and men,...

By Pamela Bedore, Ph.D., University of Connecticut John Wyndham has often been seen as a highly accessible science fiction writer who comes up with unique and compelling catastrophic scenarios. In the...

Please Support Local Advertisers ICAM has announced the additon of two new streaming channels. The local cable TV station can now stream the Public and Education channels along with the...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they...

A few weeks back, our son Lucas, age 9 – who’s surely owed an adventure after the masked-up pandemic summer of 2020 – selected these electives for his upcoming time at sleepaway camp:...

The New York TimesHer High School Said She Ranked Third in Her Class. So She Went to Court.Dalee Sullivan looked straight ahead into her computer’s camera and started making her case...

The “Carte Blanche” film series at MOMA, programmed by the prodigious science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, concludes this week with two personal works. He discusses his childhood in Harlem and his life...

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Kay Lahusen, 91, died in gentle hospice care at Chester County Hospital on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, after a brief illness. She was born in Cincinnati in January...

CBCOne of the last great Gloucester schooners: The L.A. Dunton of Grand Bank celebrates 100 yearsEarlier this year, the schooner L.A. Dunton marked a century since its launch, and a Fortune,...

From left: Image courtesy of Balenciaga; Photography Roxy Lee. Image courtesy of Martine Rose; Image courtesy of Levi'sReaders, there is nothing more chic than the act of giving, as this week’s round-up proves....

Drexel University will kick off and close out Pride Month 2021 with online events exploring and celebrating the wide spectrum of history, experiences and issues within...

DELTA — Sex.Couple that with education. Link it to anything other than heterosexual unions. Bring the Bible into it. And, in Delta County, expect a volatile civic tempest.The latest controversy over...

It's official: Rugrats' Betty DeVille, mother of baby characters Phil and Lil, is an openly gay woman in the new Paramount+ reboot of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series, which is now available to stream...

After months of unprecedented struggles, June is finally bringing some normalities back. The weather is getting warmer, places are opening to their full capacity, panic has ceased, and it feels like...

Kay Tobin Lahusen, a prominent gay rights activist whose photographs documented the movement’s earliest days and depicted lesbians who were out when they were virtually absent from popular culture, died on...

Doyle: We're at a game changing point in science and technology. We're poised to enable translation breakthroughs in our applications of that understanding to broadly stated information science, so networking, signal...

An audio documentary prompted by a photograph of people being restrained by police as they attempted to leave Lima in Peru to avoid Covid-19 has won the 2021 Mary Mulvihill Award....

Battle lines have been drawn at Swarthmore College over a decision to partner with an organization that brings in retired military personnel as visiting faculty members.As a school founded by Quakers,...

In the academic literature the terminology “sexual and gender minority” or SGM is commonplace. That is because SGM helps to succinctly encapsulate a diverse range of people, who often identify with...

For the first time since the Victorian period, a new English dictionary of Ancient Greek has been published – and it does not spare the reader or modern scholar in a...

By Hugo Greenhalgh LONDON, May 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More Britons than ever before identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), meaning the nation's gay and bi community grew by...

I’ve been working in books and publishing since 2004, I’ve been a sci-fi/fantasy fan since my mom read us The Hobbit, complete with voices and songs, and I still manage to...

Every spring, Wesleyan recognizes outstanding teaching with three Binswanger Prizes for Excellence in Teaching. These prizes, made possible by gifts from the family of the late Frank G. Binswanger Sr., Hon....

By Wendy Osher May 26, 2021, 11:55 AM HST * Updated May 26, 4:17 PM The US Pacific Fleet has confirmed the presence of a “Russian Hydrographic Vessel” operating...

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Last spring, in the early days of the pandemic, Jared Gay started a new kind of weekly ritual. JARED GAY: I would settle...

Here’s what you need to know:David Chipman spoke at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons in 2019.Credit...Andrew Harnik/Associated PressDavid Chipman, President Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol,...

Recently, I listened to “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen on Audible. Savoring every word, I was transported to 19th century, Regency-era England. Immersed in the world of Elizabeth Bennet, Mr....

CBCShould parents have the choice to keep their child in the same grade after 2nd disrupted school year?After a pandemic year of switching between in-person and remote learning, Nicholas Madott isn't...

Graphic design is one of 37 programs at Warren Tech that allow students to work with faculty and industry partners in real-world professional projects, internships and apprenticeships. Working with the English...

Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was called the “greatest gay victory” of the time: successfully pushing members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove the diagnosis of...

Souvik Mandal chasing wasps on his bicycle in the IISc campus to discover how they find the way back to their nest. Photo: Souvik Mandal I confess to having been in love...