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Will outside-the-womb gestation, increasingly viable for animal embryos, lead to a feminist utopia? Or to something like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

Jane Fonda's workout videos cracked open the idea of who exercise was for, but only to an extent.

There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less. But the electric-powered vehicle is actually a very old technology.

Well-researched stories from The New Republic, PBS, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Ecological conservation was originally focused on keeping things the way they were, and in that spirit, was closely connected with political conservatism.

NASA's retirement of the space shuttle, along with the increase of commercial space firms, have ushered in a second space age. Is NASA still relevant?

A study of white children in 1960s Wisconsin showed how strongly peer groups can affect the way people think about race.

In the U.S. and Europe, there's still discomfort around the topic of masturbation. But we’ve come a long way from tying it to mortal sin and insanity.