French driver Doriane Pin won the all-female F1 Academy title in the final race of the season in Las Vegas on Saturday. The 21-year-old Mercedes junior beat Ferrari-backed Dutch rival Maya Weug by 15 ...

Internal combustion engine development is far from stagnant these days, in spite of the advances in electric powertrains in recent decades—and this patent from Porsche concerning a W-style cylinder ...

Sanae Takaichi is about to become Japan's first female prime minister. When first elected to parliament, she owned a 1991 Supra 2.5GT Twin-Turbo Limited, driving it to work for over two decades. The ...

Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager embodied the contradictions of midcentury America. The photographer, who died in 2014 at the age of 85, was a flirty exhibitionist and a suburban housewife. She was a ...

The 1990s were the time to express yourself. Looking back on the decade, it seemed like one of the most creative times of the past 100 years. Kids were being slimed on television. MTV was creating ...

To many people, the mention of metal or heavy music brings to mind venues full of guys with beards, long hair, and patch-covered vests. While the metal world is indisputably male-dominated, many women ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One of Maria McManus’s customers—a “fabulous L.A. woman,” as the Irish-bred, New ...

Source: Lucie Bartikova/Shutterstock When Walter B. Cannon coined the term “fight or flight” in 1933 to describe stress behaviors, he likely didn’t consider that males and females might respond ...

Pittsburgh boxer Mary Casamassa is still trying to fully absorb the notion that her next fight will not just take place at the legendary Madison Square Garden, but will also go out live to the world ...

In 1996, Binti Jua, a Western Lowland Gorilla, rescued an unconscious 3-year-old boy who fell into the Brookfield Zoo's ape pit Mark Gray is a journalist of over two decades. He has written about ...

Audrey McLoghlin, founder of the clothing brand Frank & Eileen, knows just how hard entrepreneurship can be. She launched her Los Angeles-based company in 2009 after declaring personal bankruptcy ...

For 22-year-old Alex Ann, conversations about transgender women are black and white. “Trans women are women,” said Ann, who identifies as a nonbinary trans person. And when it comes to trans women ...