Men 2% funnier than women
A University of California study by psychologist Laura Mickes has found that men are funnier than women, but not by…
Londoners lead in cell phone crap stakes
British poo boffins say that one-in-six of the cell phones they analyzed was contaminated with fecal matter and E. coli…
Awfulness of poverty ensured global spread of class system
Evolutionary biologists at Stanford University have been pondering why most cultures have a class structure instead of being egalitarian. The…
Is the quest for romance causing the gender gap in science?
Four new studies from the University at Buffalo suggest that the goal of being romantically desirable is causing the persistent…
Scientists quantify critical-mass required for spread of ideas
If just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority,…
War cheaper, more popular than ever
Far from the planet becoming more peaceful, the frequency of wars between states has increased steadily from 1870 by 2…
Chick-magnet pulling power confirmed
Driving a sports car makes a man more desirable to women, but only for uncommitted romantic flings and not as…
The color red provides speed and strength boost
When humans see the color red, their reactions become both faster and more forceful. People are mostly unaware of the…
Radiation exposure impacting gender ratio
Analyzing data from population centers around normally functioning nuclear power stations, German researchers have found an increased percentage of male…
Happy men not sexually attractive to women
The notion that women find “bad boys” sexually attractive gets reinforcement from a new study published in Emotion showing that…
Study reveals how cops spot liars
The ability to effectively detect deception is a cornerstone of successful law enforcement, and now, the investigative interviewing techniques used…
Experiments reveal aggression to be a “manhood-restoring tactic”
Manhood is difficult to earn and easy to lose; suggest experiments by University of South Florida psychologists that also showed…
Scans reveal brain’s in-built caste system
Reporting their findings in Current Biology, National Institute of Mental Health researchers say that people of higher subjective socioeconomic status…
Why are the happiest places also suicide hotspots?
The happiest countries (and happiest U.S. states) have the highest suicide rates; say an international team of researchers, who have…
Women: they don’t make ’em like they used to
A study of 16th century European skulls by North Carolina State University researchers has found that women are beginning to…
Men fueling plastic surgery boom
Statistics released this week by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) show that more men are going under the…
Sex selection gender skew in East raises concerns
A preference for sons in China, India and South Korea combined with easy access to sex-selective abortions means that some…
Conservation scientists mull reconstruction of buddhas
Coordinated by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a group of scientists is examining the debris left…
Testosterone: empathy killer
An administration of testosterone under the tongues of volunteers negatively affected their ability to “read” the minds of others, an…
Penile presence makes for abominable affairs
Men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman…
Masculinity trumps intelligence for ovulating women
How human sexual selection evolved over time is becoming clearer with new findings from the University of Colorado at Boulder…