Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we let our hair down, well not me per se but other scientists with ...

WHEN we see hermaphrodites or commonly known as Hijras collecting money from the people for their own maintenance in the streets, our heart skips a little beat with a fear of being harassed. But we ...

The animal kingdom is a wonderful and wacky place filled with creatures with all sorts of unique abilities, ranging from walking on water, holding their breath miles beneath the ocean and even living ...

Scientists who compared frogs collected over the last 150 years have discovered a dramatic increase in hermaphrodites during the times when contamination from the pesticide DDT and other chlorinated ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Born with both male and female genitalia, a life of uncertainty seemed to await Ali and his family, but changing attitudes means hermaphrodites once-scorned in India are ...

One of the highlights of the High Holy Days is the blowing of the shofar, and the best shofar-blowing I ever heard was by a woman. Her tekiah gedolah was — the long blast sounded at the end of each ...

[T]he military is not civilian life, and I think the folks that have been in the military that have been in these very close situations with each other -- there has to be a special bond there, and I ...

It's the age old question... What came first the chicken or the egg? Well in sports at times, especially the Olympic games, the question is, what came first, the woman or the man? It's always amazed ...

With a surprisingly simple genetic tweak, scientists have transformed nematode worms into hermaphrodites. They report in the journal Science that lowering the activity of just two genetic pathways ...

MAINZ, Germany – Pink? Or blue? For most parents this is the paramount question when it comes to organizing a baby shower or choosing a color for a newborn's room. But, what happens if the exact ...