A new scientific review challenges the widespread idea that certain physical features in women serve as biological signals of ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has taken a historic step toward closing a long-overlooked safety gap by introducing THOR-05F, the nation’s first crash-test dummy designed specifically to ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...

A woman's body is incredible and capable of so much — sometimes, you might not even realize what it's capable of doing until it's happening to you. Women of the BuzzFeed Community shared some of these ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

Body shaming, a prevalent issue in today’s society, deeply impacts the mental and emotional health of countless women. The culture of criticizing or making negative comments about a woman’s body, ...

As your 40th birthday approaches, you may feel apprehensive about aging. Body changes at 40 in women are often related to perimenopause (the transition into menopause), during which hormones like ...

Summer: the time for pool parties, barbecues, beach trips and, of course, lots of sweat. It's something many women experience but rarely discuss. But after years of being unsatisfied with the lack of ...