The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use ...

Ultimately, 1 in 100 athletes were found to have suffered some kind of heat-related illness at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Some 24 athletes in the race walk and marathon events became so ...

Rachel Feltman: There have been a lot of headlines in recent years about transgender athletes. But this isn’t actually the first time debates over biological sex have caused controversy and exclusion ...

Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 ...

For thousands of years, scholars pondered the question of how anything can move in our world. The problem seemed to have been ...

Scientists say efforts to tame methane in agriculture can spur the output of another greenhouse gas: nitrous oxide ...

An ambitious U.S. government program is working to detect and track millions of tiny space junk pieces—down to the size of a ...

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after ...

Here’s what experts and former athletes have to say about dealing with post-Olympics mental health struggles Olympic athletes ...

Robert L. Nelson is professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University and MacCrate research chair at the American Bar Foundation. He studies law and inequality.

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the ...

The meteorological community has a bit of a love-hate relationship with Twister, the 1996 blockbuster about tornado-chasing ...