Biology Oxytocin Determines Smell of Gender (Biology) 10 Feb 2021 An important means for animals to find their mates is by smelling: they pick up whiffs of sex pheromones released by their conspecifics, which convey to them the senders' sex…
Neuroscience Sleep Disorders: Patients Often Underestimate Their Total Sleep Time (Neuroscience) 30 Jan 2021 Misperceptions most prevalent in insomnia patients People with sleep disorders commonly have a misperception about their actual sleep behaviour. A research group led by Karin Trimmel and Stefan Seidel from…
Neuroscience Why Do Girls Like Pink? (Neuroscience) 12 Dec 2020 Recent research on gender development is reviewed. In a recent article, published in the November 2020 issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Melissa Hines of the University of Cambridge reviews the latest…
Medicine Humans Have Used Drugs With Sex for Millennia – the Reasons Are Much Broader Than You Think (Medicine) 5 Dec 20205 Dec 2020 On their own, sex and drugs are cultural taboos. Combining them only adds to our reluctance to talk about them. But understanding how sex and drugs are connected isn’t something…
Psychology What Women Want, What Men Want (Psychology) 27 Nov 202027 Nov 2020 Sex differences in what men and women find attractive in an opposite sex partner have consistently shown that men have a preference for physically attractive women, with women showing a…
Biology Jacky Dragon Moms’ Time In The Sun Affects Their Kids (Biology) 11 Nov 2020 A study of maternal body condition potentially links environmental temperature to offspring traits. A new study conducted at the University of New South Wales and published in the November/December 2020…
Medicine Women’s Hearts Age Differently (Medicine / Cardiology) 3 Oct 2020 Cardiologist Catherine Gebhard’s research focuses on why certain diseases affect women and men differently. For the gender medicine pioneer, the corona pandemic is both a textbook example and a call…
