Canadian comedian Mae Martin presents Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, which airs Thursday on The Nature of Things. (Kensington Communications – image credit) The natural world is full of gender diversity: female hyenas have pseudo-penises that are used for sex and urination, many species of fish and plants change their sex throughout their lives, and … Read more
Emily Martin, an epidemiologist and COVID-19 researcher, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Oct. 10, 2023. (Cydni Elledge/The New York Times) Rat feces from New York City. Poop from dog parks in Wisconsin. Human waste from a hospital in Missouri. These are some of the materials that prepare us for the next chapter … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the highest limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19e century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the highest limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19e century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short … Read more