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Jun 16, 2016

Sex with 2 Partners Before Marriage Raises Divorce Risk

When it comes to sex before marriage, a lot may be better than a little. New research suggests that women who had exactly two sexual partners (their husbands and one other person) were more likely to divorce than those who had either just one partner or many more. This was...

Jun 20, 2016

Male Doctors, Female Nurses: Subconscious Stereotypes Hard to Budge

The conscious mind is quick to adapt to information that flies in the face of stereotype, but the subconscious may ignore even the most glaring of facts, new research finds. When people are given two names, Jonathan and Elizabeth, and asked who is a doctor and who is a nurse,...

Jun 24, 2016

Pretty as a Princess: Disney Movies May Be Making Girls 'Girlier'

What is Frozen doing to kids' psyches? New research finds that preschoolers who watch Disney's princess movies are not only more likely to don the sparkling ultrafeminine fashion but also to internalize stereotypical gender roles. Researchers surveyed almost 200 4-year-old girls and boys, as well as the children's mothers and...

Jun 24, 2016

Pretty Risky: Men Would Skip Condoms with Attractive Women

When a woman is more attractive, a man is less likely to intend to use a condom during sex with her, a new study finds. Previous research has suggested that there is a link between perceived attractiveness and a person's willingness to have unprotected sex, the researchers, led by Anastasia...

Jul 13, 2016

Men with Long Work Hours Cause Families to Suffer

Men who work long hours make their wives feel more stressed and rushed, but women who work long hours don't have the same effect on their husbands, new research on Australian families suggests. The job demands of men affect women, but we didn't find any evidence that the opposite was...

Jul 17, 2016

Pediatricians Should Discuss Sexuality with Kids, Group Says

Pediatricians should help educate their patients about sex and help parents learn how best to talk to their kids about sexuality, advised a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. By acting as an additional source for trustworthy information about sex and sexuality, pediatricians could complement the education that...

Jul 28, 2016

Unequal Division of Labor in Marriage Ups Risk of Divorce

Contrary to what people might think, the money aspects of a marriage — the current earnings of a couple, or a wife's ability to support herself in the event her marriage breaks up, for example — don't appear to play a role in divorce, a new study suggests. Rather, for...

Aug 1, 2016

'Doctor Who' Scientists: How Do Women Measure Up?

Science fiction promises that the world can be dramatically different — and presumably better — from what we experience every day, if we can only imagine it. We can have jetpacks, oscillation overthrusters, lightsabers and transporters. We can pilot starships, trade jibes with talking raccoons or sarcastic robots, and hitchhike...

Aug 2, 2016

Hookups Trend Down: Millennial Sex Lives Lag Behind Gen X

Millennials can't catch a break. Not only do their elders repeatedly accuse them of being narcissistic, lazy and entitled, but now a new study pulls the sheet off their sex lives, revealing that there isn't as much going on as you might expect. Researchers discovered that people born from the...

Dec 5, 2016

Pubic Hair Grooming May Raise STI Risk

People who are sexually active and who regularly groom their pubic hair may be more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections than those who don't groom their pubic hair at all, according to a new study. People in the study who regularly groomed their pubic hair were 80 percent more...

Jan 14, 2017

Preserving Bodies in a Deep Freeze: 50 Years Later

(Inside Science) -- Early in the 1960s, a group of enthusiasts advanced the concept of freezing humans as soon as they die, in hopes of reviving them after the arrival of medical advances able to cure the conditions that killed them. The idea went into practice for the first time...

Jan 19, 2017

Gwyneth Paltrow's Jade Eggs Are a Bunch of Baloney

Move over, vaginal steaming: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is suggesting an alleged new way to boost your reproductive health: a jade egg that's inserted into the vagina. The eggs are currently sold out on Paltrow's website, goop. But similar to the response to another one of Paltrow's health recommendations — that...

Feb 16, 2017

Combatting Stereotypes: How to Talk to Your Children

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time children start elementary school, gender and race shape their...

Feb 24, 2017

'Love Hormone' May Help Dads Bond with Toddlers

Oxytocin — the love hormone perhaps best known for stimulating bonding between mothers and newborns, or between romantic partners — may also play a role in dads' empathy toward their toddlers, a new study suggests. Researchers found that fathers who were given a boost of oxytocin via a nasal spray,...

Mar 7, 2017

Do Women Really Need a Yearly Pelvic Exam?

Experts are still debating whether women need a pelvic exam at their yearly visit to a gynecologist, according to a new report. The report comes from a government-appointed expert panel that reviewed hundreds of studies on pelvic exams and concluded that there isn't enough evidence to make a recommendation either...