A newly described ant species found in Japan reproduces without males and maintains colonies composed entirely of queens, a ...

Rachel Shatto, Editor-in-chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and ...

Celibacy is having a moment. It even has a branded campaign: a partnership between David’s Protein Bars and social provocateur Julia Fox, who has publicly talked about her own abstaining from sex. In ...

Mashable celebrates Pride all year long and honors Pride Month in June by exploring and championing the modern LGBTQ world in all its glorious queerness — including the leaders, conversations, and ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

In the LGBTQ+ community, there are many flags that symbolize joy, pride and persistence. From the progress rainbow to the trans flag and the pansexual and intersex flags, each has its own meaning and ...

April 6 is International Asexuality Day. It’s a day that was created by asexual activists (including model Yasmin Benoit) to highlight how asexuality is an oftentimes invisible orientation that many ...

Growing up, Jordan Busits never understood the appeal of romantic comedies like her friends did. When she was in middle school and a classmate asked to be her boyfriend, she recoiled and felt a ...

In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have investigated the asexual reproduction of oribatid mites using genome sequencing ...

Lucinda Aulsebrook does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It’s easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

It’s estimated that about 1 percent of the world’s population identifies as asexual, which according to The Trevor Project, are people who “experience little or no sexual attraction to others. Asexual ...