Health

Research letter: Indoor tanning rates drop among US adults

Indoor tanning rates dropped among adults from 5.5 percent in 2010 to 4.2 percent in 2013, although an estimated 7.8 million women and 1.9 million men still engage in the practice, which has been linked to increased cancer ...

Neuroscience

Men and women could use different cells to process pain

We have known for some time that there are sex differences when it comes to experiencing pain, with women showing a higher sensitivity to painful events compared to men. While we don't really understand why this is, it seems ...

Health

More women are reaching 100 but centenarian men are healthier

New research conducted by a team at King's College London has found an increasing trend in the number of people in the UK reaching age 100 over the past two decades. The study also found that, whilst women were far more likely ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study reveals why men are more forgetful

Science has finally proven what many have long suspected – that men are more forgetful than women. Aston University research has revealed that women are better at remembering to perform and fulfil future tasks and plans.

Psychology & Psychiatry

How men and women see each other when online dating

In the world of online dating, nothing is as it seems. But that doesn't stop many of us from leaping to the wrong conclusions about people. A recent paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Rethinking the rebound: Unexpected effects of rejection

It's portrayed in movies again and again - a character gets rejected by someone attractive and then falls willingly into the arms of someone perhaps less attractive. According to a new study, it's not so simple: Rejection ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

When society isn't judging, women's sex drive rivals men's

Men just want sex more than women. I'm sure you've heard that one. Stephen Fry even went as far as suggesting in 2010 that straight women only went to bed with men because sex was "the price they are willing to pay for a ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The end of male supremacy?

Women and men have biological differences that give each certain advantages, but women's biological advantages are becoming more and more relevant in modern societies and helping shift the balance of power between the two ...

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