Nonagenarian Women More Predisposed to Dementia than Men
	A review regarding the findings of the 90+ Study in the United States, the biggest study on dementia and other health factors in the country, found recently that women with ages over 90 years are more likely to have dementia than men. The original study involved the investigation of 911 people with ages over 90 and indicated, according to University of California researchers, that almost half of the women participating in the study had som ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Less Responsive to Heart Disease Drug Treatment
	A new study carried out by researchers at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medial Center reveals that women don't respond as well as males do to drug treatment, such as losartan and atenolol, against cardiovascular diseases although the two drugs are successful in reducing the blood pressure in all patients regardless of gender. Losartan and atenolol are generally used to treat left-ventricular hypertrophy, which is ma ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How a Genetic Man Is Actually a Woman
	We know that boys have XY sex chromosomes, while girls have XX. However, in some cases, newborn girls can be XY. A new research published in the Nature journal clarifies why some XY embryos, instead of being born as males, develop ovaries and evolve as girls: it’s because of a gene called Sox9, involved in formation of the testes, and other two control genes. "There are a surprisingly large number of cases where this pro ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Mother's Diet Influences the Gender of Her Future Child
	There are couples give birth to so many babies they could literally form a football team, and all because of their desire of having a daughter. Others end up with a group of cheerleaders but a boy fails to make himself present. The answer is simpler than thought: a new study carried out at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford shows for the first time the connection between a child's gender and the mother's energy intake around t ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Unisex Brain
	There is a large array of recent researchers unveiling the differences between the male and female brain. A new research published in the journal Cell shows the opposite, that the two genders have a largely unisex brain. The researchers managed to trigger artificially the neurons controlling singing, a male only activity, made female flies play their serenades, too. " You might expect that the brains of the two sexes wou ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Males Are Born Machos
	It is largely believed that boys are educated to adopt male values: in movies or video games, the male heroes are killing machines with muscular hypertrophy that solve their problems through force, annihilating their opponents. Boys are punished more harshly than girls are, and parents expect them to be tough, protective while male friends reject those that cry. Whereas, girls are expected to be sensitive. There are so many psychologi ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexual Brain Differences in How Speech Is Processed
	Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelming difference in brain structure between the sexes: teen males and females employ somewhat different brain areas wh ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breakthrough Discovery of Brain Differences Between Men and Women. It also explains PMS!
	Men and women are clearly different species. And this is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also the opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences... The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines the feminization of the brain), generating anatomical differences that explain why the males find it harder to read facial exp ... [read more >>]
	16 February 2008, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Have Thicker Skulls Than Men!
	Men are bigger than women and they have a reputation as being more thick-headed than the females. And here comes the surprise delivered by a new research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety: in fact, women have thicker skulls then men! The team made of researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianjin University of Science and Technology developed a non-invasive method of measuring geometric traits of the hu ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gender Identity Disorder: When Should the Hormonal Treatment Start?
	GID (gender identity disorder) can turn life into a hell. The condition is characterized by strong disgust for the body and deep uncertainty over the sense of self. Hiding the condition is the cause for a lot of distress. At puberty, transboys may grow female secondary sex traits, like breasts, and may even have menstruation, whereas transgirls may grow beards and masculine Adam's apples, have erections and be taller than average. ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Clime Battle of the Sexes
	You already know this: the sex chromosome from your father dictated your sex: boy for Y, girl for X. It's the same case with all the mammals. The mother will always come with an X chromosome. But in reptiles, there are neither sex chromosomes, nor sex portions on the chromosomes. All the eggs have the potential to develop into males or females, and this is determined by the incubation temperature of the eggs. A new research ma ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want a Mate? Then Look Him/Her Straight Into the Eyes
	What would you prefer? The shy geek avoiding your look or the daring punk? The stupid bimbo not daring to look at you or the vivid girl piercing you with her eyes? Maybe the folk wisdom already knows it, but a new research strengthens it: look directly at someone if you want to appear more attractive, say the results of a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Most of the studies ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Does Pollution Turn Men Into An Endangered Species?
	There should be a worldwide sex ratio of 106 newborn boys to 100 newborn girls. Boys are anyhow more fragile and by puberty, the ratio will be 1:1. Even 1:1 at birth is not good, but when this drops to one boy for each two girls, this is disastrous. This is the case of the Chippewas of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, an 850 members community, inhabiting the shores of the St. Clair River outside Sarnia, Ontario. The main suspect for this ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Females and Males not Have the Same Body Size?
	Except for couples like Tom Cruise - Nicole Kidman, we know that the man is usually taller than the woman. But the body size, form and structure between the genders are not limited only to humans. And the evolutionary causes of these differences are not clearly understood. A new scholarly book sums up the latest discoveries in evolutionary biology that can shed light on gender differences many organisms, from mammals to birds ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Is It That 4 Times More Men Than Women Commit Suicide?
	"Men come from Mars, and women from Venus", that's why they feel and behave differently. A new University of Western Sydney research showed that current depression treatments are not very successful with men as they are developed targeting especially women. "Men and women cope with and receive treatment for depression in distinct ways. Australia's suicide rate currently shows men are four times more ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Video Games Make Women's Brain Function Like Men's
	Men and women come from different planets. That's a scientifically proven fact: male brain is better when it comes to navigational and spatial skills (like reading a map in a car or visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams, mentally rotating objects, judging line angles and distances) while women overcome men in verbal dexterity tests (word fluency), reading facial expressions and remembering the pla ... [read more >>]
	29 September 2007, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hair Loss: 3 Causes and 3 Methods of Treatment
	Hair loss is more than a physical issue. For many people, it is a great fatality that even changes their character. They turn more introverted, avoid relations with the others, get low self esteem, and even depression. Men will think that the others see them as being less attractive and sometimes even less virile (paradoxically, most men suffer genetic baldness linked to testosterone, the sex hormone, thus balder can show off in some cases ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 14:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Are More Intelligent and Dumber than Women at the Same Time!
	This is a breakthrough with a double meaning for the feminist party. The genes may be the same, but the brain structure makes women aspire to IQ records, while men are either geniuses or simply dumb. In everyday life, what you see is what you get... Researchers have justified this by suggesting there are twice as many men as women in the brightest 2% of the population but this is also true at the other extreme: in the least intelligent ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Big Mamas Have Baby Boys
	Naturally, about 103-106 boys are born, as compared to 100 girls (a birth sex ratio of 1.03-1.06). But as boys are weaker, at the adult age there will be a sex ratio of about 100:100 (or 1). In the last decades, there has been registered a decrease in the number of baby boys born as compared to girls in industrialized countries, like Canada, Denmark, England, Germany, Japan and the United States, even if there are still more baby boys ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Chinese Sex Bomb
	You may know that birth sex ratio (the number of newborn males compared to the number of newborn females) is about 103-106 : 100. But combine ignorance (read it cultural preferences for boys), modern reproductive technology and one child policy and here is the result: by 2020 there will be over 37 million extra Chinese men. The huge number of young Chinese men far outnumbering young women pressed the Chinese government to mak ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Do Men Look For in Women?
	"I want her to be intelligent, cultivated, well mannered..." Who the heck believes all this crap, when the first things a man sees when he looks at a woman are boobs, legs and butt? Even if we proudly call ourselves "Homo sapiens" ("Wise people"), we still behave like chimps when it comes to choosing a mate. At least this is the case with men. A new research made at Indiana University by a team led by c ... [read more >>]
	04 September 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Older Men Drool For Young Women
	Which man in this world is not jealous of Hugh Hefner? It is a fact that men prefer younger women as mates, and women want by their side an older man. This male preference is universal across cultures. Now, a scientific reason has been found: it boosts the evolutionary success. In short, the number of children an individual produces along his lifespan. The new research was made by Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber, a married co ... [read more >>]
	01 September 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Are Boys Really the Tough Sex?
	The data does not lie. Girls learn to read before boys, get better marks in college, and even their brain contains more gray matter. Medically, boys are clearly weaker. Children receive an asexuate education, but the neurological, chemical and hormonal differences are a reality. Even from the fetal state, males are weaker than females. The sex ratio at birth is slightly in the favor of the boys. But from the womb, boys are more vulnera ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2007, 07:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Are Girls Fatter Than Boys?
	The beautiful blond women of Sweden are facing a huge problem: they are getting increasingly fatter. Swedish researchers are puzzled by an unusual situation: Swedish little girls are more predisposed to obesity than little boys are. A recent investigation made by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University revealed that nowadays, 4-year-old girls present six times higher rates of obesity than they did 20 years ago. "This ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex Trips for Lousy Males
	“The Lion King” presented to the public the meerkats, a type of South African mangoose, through the character of Timon. But unlike Timon, real meerkats do not keep company to warthogs and do not live solitary but in social groups, up to 30 individuals, with a complex cooperative behavior and a strict hierarchy. But in this rigid society, dominated by alpha males and females, researchers found something inconceivable: lousy subordinate male ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2007, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Use Their Whole Brain, Men Just Half of It
	The minds of the two sexes are so differently fired: men want sex, women want money ... The difference is present also when we are planning how to reach for something, according to a new research at Faculty of Health’s School of Kinesiology, York University, made by associate professor Lauren Sergio and Dr. Diana Gorbet. The researchers spotted differences in patterns of brain activity in men and women accomplishing visually-guided ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2007, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Females Regenerate Better Than Males!...
	They win again ... A new research found that muscle stem cells coming from females are better at generating tissue than the male ones are, a discovery with great impact in the stem technology, aiming at therapies against many diseases and conditions. Scientists working on muscle stem cells realized that all of the ones they had employed came from female mice. So that they experimented with both male and female cells to see if they w ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Snore Twice Compared to Women
	Common sense has already pointed you that men snore more than women, but a new research proved it scientifically. More researchers have coincided that up to 80 % of men snore at some time, double the number compared to women, and about 40 % of them snore every night. "It's much more a male problem than female [one]. We don't fully know why, but there's quite good evidence that snoring disturbs partners," sai ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

High Testosterone Level Makes You Enjoy Angry Faces
	A face like Steven Segal's may upset or raise concern, but there are some individuals with high levels of testosterone who actually enjoy angry looks and even seek methods to provoke them, as suggests a new research. "It's kind of striking that an angry facial expression is consciously valued as a very negative signal by almost everyone, yet at a non-conscious level can be like a tasty morsel that some people will vigoro ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simple Outlines Reveal to Us Sex, Race and Age
	You may believe that race is something not so obvious, but adult brains are so keen in detecting race, sex and age that we can correctly determine those traits from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show. "It's surprising how much information the silhouette provides," said lead researcher Nicolas Davidenko, a cognitive psychologist at Stanford University. "We rarely have to identify ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fat Loss by Exercising Depends on the Sex
	Diet and exercise are the key to a fit body. But their impact is quite different in boys and girls. A new British research found that exercise acts differently on body fat for boys and girls. The researchers found that recommendations on exercise to decrease the up-going tendency of obesity in children have tackled with a unisex approach. The research was made on a random sample of 224 children, 7 to 10 years old at 12 ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexual Attractiveness Is Triggered by Sexual Dimorphic Clues
	What makes the sexes be attracted to one another? What makes you end up for the night with a drag queen instead of a nice girl? A new research points that perceived attractiveness is determined by how biological sex is linked to sexual cues (masculinity and femininity). The research made by Kerri Johnson at New York University's Department of Psychology and Louis Tassinary at Texas A & M University's Department of A ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia