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Hormones and brain activity: Study sheds light on facial preferences

Hormones and brain activity: Study sheds light on facial preferences

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that women's preferences for masculine men change throughout their menstrual cycles. A new study from Indiana University's Kinsey Institute is the first to demonstrate ...





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White, but not pure

White, but not pure

Space & Earth / Environment

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from ...


Caltech scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies

Scientists discover aggression-promoting pheromone in flies (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers elbow their way to the front? It turns out that ...


Are angry women more like men?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 4

"Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions.


Where are the female scientists in research articles?

Where are the female scientists in research articles?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A recent research article published in the journal Scientometrics by a team from the University of Extremadura (UEX) has proved something that was already obvious to its scientific community - the extreme imbala ...


Acculturation influences smoking cessation by Latino men

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published ...


Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - ...


Susceptibility predicts smoking risk among Mexican-American youth

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whether non-smoking Mexican-American adolescents go on to experiment with smoking depends largely on their initial attitude toward the habit, researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the December issue of Cancer Ep ...


Scent signals stop incest in lemurs

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemical identifiers secreted from the genital glands of lemurs, allow them to avoid incest and also to engage in nepotism. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have identified the smells ...


Male and female shopping strategies show evolution at work in the mall

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Male and female shopping styles are in our genes---and we can look to evolution for the reason. Daniel Kruger, research faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says it's perfectly natural that men often ...


Some birds listen, instead of look, for mates

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Looks can be deceiving, but certain bird species have figured out that a voice can tell them most of what they need to know to find the right mate.



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