Research affirms the power of 'we'
A healthy relationship starts with the word "we."
Oct 05, 2018
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Bold male birds fall faster and harder for their partners
Research from Oxford University has revealed that bold male birds focus on forming strong relationships with their future breeding partners while shy male birds play the field.
Female gametes prefer sperm with different immune genes
Through clever partner selection, animals can increase the future success of their offspring. With some species, this process continues even after the sex act. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology ...
Redesign dating apps to lessen racial bias, study recommends
Mobile dating apps that allow users to filter their searches by race – or rely on algorithms that pair up people of the same race – reinforce racial divisions and biases, according to a new paper by Cornell researchers.
Animals and plants jointly coexist
The tropical rainforest, with its permanently wet climate, brims over with an abundance of plant species. Flowers of all sizes with shallow to deep tubes offer a wide variety of food sources to pollinators. Sunbirds, for ...
Sharing parenting leads to healthier young, beetle study finds
Animals who share the task of parenting do a better job than parents who do so on their own, according to a study of insects.
Open relationships just as satisfying as monogamous ones, study reveals
A new University of Guelph study has revealed that people in open relationships are as happy as their coupled-up counterparts
Women show sexual preference for tall, dominant men – so is gender inequality inevitable?
The old cliché tells us the most desirable men are "tall, dark, and handsome" – and scientific research confirms that heterosexual women tend to prefer partners who are taller than them.
Huddling for survival—monkeys with more social partners can winter
Wild monkeys which have more social partners form larger huddles in adverse weather and have a better chance of surviving winter, new research has found.
Gap in financial literacy widens for couples the longer the relationship lasts, study suggests
As couples mature together, they often grow apart in their level of interest and skill in handling their finances. A disparity in financial literacy that may be small or even nonexistent at first can increase over time depending ...
