When Kim de l’Horizon won the German Book Prize for Blood Book in 2022, it sparked a nationwide debate about the limitations of the German language. The autofictional novel, which explores de ...

GAS CITY, Ind. — Popular author Jodi Picoult said that one parent’s complaint about a non-binary character led to a last-minute cancellation of Mississinewa High School’s planned performance of ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...

Moises Mendez II is an associate editor at Out Magazine based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment, including televi ...

Next time you see someone poring over a highbrow novel on the train or posing with a philosophical tome on social media, you shouldn't automatically assume they are reading the book. "Performative ...

There’s an old story from the Jewish tradition about a group of rabbis debating who owns a bird found near a property line. The rule seems simple—birds on one side belong to the property owner, birds ...

Growing up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, nonbinary Inland Empire author Jonathan “Jon Paul” Higgins struggled to find positive representations of their identity. They used media — especially ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...