Surgical intervention on intersex people, designed to ensure the body fits limited gender boundaries, has long been the status quo. Now, intersex advocates are standing up for the rights to control their own bodies.
With Ursula K. Le Guin challenging the gender binary as early as the 1960s, speculative fiction has been pushing society’s boundaries in a way no other genre has been free to do so.
A rainbow is a many-splendoured thing. Over the centuries, rainbows have baffled scientists, ensorcelled storytellers, and even inspired social change.
Gripping the edge of your seat during a scary film? By understanding the physiology of fear, there’s a multitude of ways that filmmakers can give us a good scare.
Conditions in an isolated lake in eastern Antarctica are so hostile that almost nothing can survive there. For a small group of extremophile microbes, there’s nowhere else they’d rather be.