Latest gender Stories
Testosterone might make you run faster, but that’s kind of beside the point
Eating soy does not make men grow boobs
Women are more likely to take COVID-19 guidelines seriously
What we can learn from Scotland’s free period products
A female hunter’s remains hint at more fluid gender roles in the early Americas
Exploring the common misconceptions regarding trans and non-binary identities
Ignored by doctors, trans people turn to dangerous underground treatments
LGBTQ+ alliance groups can have a positive effect on entire student populations
Trans people’s access to health care is imperiled, but a recent Supreme Court case might help
The science behind sex, gender, and athletic competition is still pretty shaky
Honoring the women who helped humans go to space
Why is it so hard for us to get peoples’ pronouns right?
People think beef is manly, and that’s a big problem
NASA’s all-female spacewalk hints at a stronger, more gender-equal space program
Gender and class inequalities haven’t really changed for 4,000 years
Stop saving your umbrella for a rainy day
Women get Alzheimer’s way more than men—and stress could help explain why
What sex is this tomato plant? It depends on when you ask.
Office temperatures tailored to men in suits are bad for business
Karen Uhlenbeck won the ‘Nobel of math’—but women are still under-represented in the field
The weirdest things we learned this week: ladies dueling topless and pseudopenis birth canals
Here’s what the U.S. Army’s new gender-neutral fitness test will look like
The weirdest things we learned this week: Cruise ships full of poop, deadly wallpaper, and the sport where women beat men
These charts reveal America’s complicated relationship with exercise
Crowdfunding helps women succeed in tech because venture capital won’t
Science needs to be more inclusive and women are making it happen
How did Heist engineer such magical tights? They bothered to try.
Heading a soccer ball might hurt women’s brains more than men’s
Male woolly mammoths lived fast, died young, and left more corpses
VIDEO: Siri talks to HAL 9000 about A.I. sexism
Girl soccer players are five times more likely to return to the game after a concussion than boys
Female orgasms aren’t all that mysterious
Scientific studies favor male mice—and that could hurt a lot of humans
Language is training artificial intelligence to replicate human bias
Most scientific studies only use male subjects. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea.
The women of Popular Science are not working today
More evidence that sexism is a big problem in science
Breaking the glass ceiling on the ocean floor
Don’t think you’re sexist? Sorry, we all are.
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Sexism may be bad for men’s mental health
Climate Change Gave The Male Of This Species A Giant Appendage
Androgynous Lionesses Strut And Roar In Manly Manes
Emoji Of All Genders And Races Get 11 New Jobs
Ellen Pao On Preventing Discrimination In Silicon Valley And Beyond
Sex Reversal In Bearded Dragons Creates Females That Behave Like Males
Women Are Being Excluded From Clinical Trials
Women Scientists You Didn’t Learn About In School
More Cases of Sexual Harassment In Astronomy Come to Light
Do men have hormonal cycles?
The Trouble With Nobel Prizes
Can We Unlearn Social Biases While We Sleep?
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Science Is Still Trying To Figure Out What Makes A Female Athlete
How Do We Tell The Difference Between Male And Female Faces?
Male And Female Stegosaurus May Have Had Different Plates
Women Are Less Likely to Harm One Person To Help Many
Army Wants To 3-D Scan Recruits’ Bodies To Build Better Armor
Wanted: Uteruses To Populate Space Colony
The Forgotten Woman Who Made Microbiology Possible
Wild Contraception: Behind Bars
Wild Contraception: Beyond a Happy Ending
Wild Contraception: The Pests
Mantis Shrimp Vision Is Not As Mindblowing As You’ve Been Told
New Study Uncovers Why Stress Leads To Depression In Some, But Not Others
The Mono-Mono Twins Are Cute, But Mostly They’re Rare—And Fascinating