Older lesbians are the keepers of a rich history of the lives of women who love other women

Many older lesbians sought out invisibility, they called each other “friends” or “career girls” or “not the marrying kind.” These terms worked as camouflage and helped...

Has COVID affected your sleep? Here’s how viruses can change our sleeping patterns

Can we time travel? A theoretical physicist provides some answers

Time travel makes regular appearances in popular culture, with innumerable time travel storylines in movies, television and literature. But it is a surprisingly old idea: one...

Challenging the whiteness of queer organizations

Pride parades were established to commemorate the strife experienced by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and trans people at the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City’s...

Fiction about abortion confronts the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights

Recent debates around Roe v. Wade in the United States have sparked new conversations about the right to abortion and what it means. On the one...

Is intermittent fasting actually good for weight loss? Here’s what the evidence says

If you’re someone who’s thought about losing weight or has wanted to get healthier in the past few years, you’ve probably come across these two words:...

Fennel looking a bit feeble? Growing enough veggies to feed yourself depends on these 3 things

Farming inside city boundaries is on the rise as countries become more urbanised and people seek to connect with the source of their food and improve...

Kids on the autism spectrum experience more bullying. Schools can do something about it

Children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, experience various types of challenges at school. This might be due to communication, and also relationships with other...

Cost of living crisis: what research says about the potential psychological impact

Over two thirds – 69% – of low-income private renters in England will be unable to eat and heat their homes at least one day per...

Why can’t you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know about ‘infantile amnesia’

Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers University, I open by asking my students to recall their very first memories. Some...