Racial and ethnic discrimination takes a toll on adolescents and is linked to their depression, poor self-esteem, lower academic achievement, substance use and risky sexual behavior, according to a meta-analysis published ...
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2018
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Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in fish, humans and all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, according to a new Cornell University study.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2018
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United States researchers investigating how single-celled organisms evolved to become multicellular stumbled across a strange phenomenon during their experiments: Single-celled eukaryotes called choanoflagellates, which are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 31, 2017
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Badly shaken over a flood of female founders accusing investors of sexual harassment, Silicon Valley's venture capital community is searching for a new kind of pitch - one that will end unwanted workplace come-ons, groping ...
Business
Aug 9, 2017
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While the topic of sex is less taboo than it was a generation ago, that doesn't necessarily mean people are having more of it.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2017
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That males are naturally promiscuous while females are coy and choosy is a widely held belief. Even many scientists – including some biologists, psychologists and anthropologists – tout this notion when interviewed by ...
Other
Jan 20, 2017
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By studying the sexual behavior of a mutant strain of fruit fly called "platonic," researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences have found parallels between humans and flies in the neural control ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2017
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Same-sex sexual behaviour is common in animals but puzzles evolutionary biologists since it doesn't carry the same obvious benefits as heterosexual courtship behavior that leads to mating and production of offspring. A study ...
Evolution
May 12, 2016
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The key to successful sexual reproduction can be traced to a single receptor in the brain, according to a new study by Stanford scientists.
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2016
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A genetic study on the courtship behavior of mutant fruit flies may illuminate human sexual orientation.
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2016
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