A woman is sexually attracted to men who smell like a good genetic match, but birth control pills make her desire the “wrong” men, a U.K. study shows.
Who is the right man? Studies suggest women are attracted to men whose genetic makeup differs from their own. Having a genetically different mate increases the chances [...]

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Men really do have an excuse for supposedly being wimpy about coughs and colds - their immune systems are not as strong as women’s, research suggests.
<!–adsense–>A Canadian study indicates that the female sex hormone oestrogen gives women’s immune systems added bite at fighting off infection.
Oestrogen seems to counter an enzyme which blocks the inflammatory process.
The [...]

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and how it’s perceived may significantly depend on the sex of the beholder. Men and women use their brains differently in a variety of tasks, such as generating words and memorizing events, so the discovery that men and women rated the beauty of art differently in [...]

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