Quiz: How Much Do You Know About the Menstrual Cycle?
Doctors and laypeople alike have significant gaps in their understanding of this essential process. Test your knowledge with our quiz.
Hotel Corazon Wants to Host Your Hot Girl Summer
The Serra de Tramuntana is a mountain range that runs along the northwestern edge of the island of Majorca, off the coast of mainland Spain. Its towering peaks and valleys are lined with ancient olive groves, lemon orchards and picturesque hilltop villages. The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and…
Lab-Grown Meat Approved to Sell for the First Time in the U.S.
The Agriculture Department approved the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat for the first time on Wednesday, clearing the way for two California companies to sell chicken produced from animal cells. It will likely be years before shoppers can buy lab-produced meat in grocery stores. But the government’s decision will eventually allow the sale of…
What I Got Wrong About My Parents’ Marriage
As one of the only Indian girls in her tiny Canadian mountain town, Natasha Singh stood out — and she was unafraid of being different. At 13, she shaved her head. By 17, she had run away for good. A few years later, she came out to her mother. Natasha’s worldview was worlds apart from…
The Best Summer Dessert Recipes
Plopping pints of mint chocolate chip or cherry vanilla onto the table after a laid-back dinner is a time-honored summer tradition. Effortless and crowd-pleasing, store-bought ice cream is the beloved finale to countless hot-weather meals. But, with some advance planning and a smidge more work, you can transform purchased pints into the kind of nostalgic…
New Fentanyl Laws Ignite Debate Over Combating Overdose Crisis
Three teenage girls were found slumped in a car in the parking lot of a rural Tennessee high school last month, hours before graduation ceremonies. Two were dead from fentanyl overdoses. The third, a 17-year-old, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Two days later, she was charged with the girls’ murders. Prosecutors cited…
Hidden in a Mini-Mall in Flushing, a Home for Art
The flier announcing a new exhibition in Queens, “Home-O-Stasis,” doesn’t give an address. Instead, it has instructions: When you reach the Queens Public Library in Flushing, “go up to Kissena Boulevard till you see the Q17/Q27 stop. Go past the garage gate, enter the mini-mall on the right where scooters and bikes are parked outside.”…
Milan Fashion Week: Italian Men’s Wear Does a Power Edit
Concision — that was the word to come to mind after eight surprising days in this men’s wear capital, and in Florence. Did some unseen force take a blue pencil to all the slack narratives, rehashed inspirations, derivative references that prevailed in recent seasons? Suddenly everything seemed crisp and focused, like early Hemingway after he’d…
Artist Jason McDonald on Making Glassware With Solange Knowles and Saint Heron
Jason McDonald discovered glassblowing more than two decades ago at an after school program in his hometown, Tacoma, Wash. He was 14 at the time, and it was nothing like anything he had ever seen before, he said: immediate, dangerous and sobering. “It was like magic,” he said. When he was diagnosed with A.D.H.D. at…
Erectile Dysfunction Treatment: What to Know About Eroxon, a New Topical Gel
Eroxon, a topical gel, “helps men get an erection within 10 minutes,” according to Futura Medical, the manufacturer.