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·July 21, 2025·6 min read

Study Reveals Biological Bias in Baby Boy or Girl Odds

A massive study of over 58,000 women shows that families may have their own subtle biological bias toward having boys or girls, rather than offspring sex being purely random. Researchers found that older maternal age at first birth and specific maternal genetic variants were linked to having only sons or only daughters.

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·April 26, 2024·5 min read

Pronoun Use Reflects Ideology and Language Structure

Researchers conducted a study examining the impact of language and ideological beliefs on pronoun usage. The study, which compared pronoun use in English, a language with gender-specific pronouns, and Turkish, which uses gender-neutral pronouns, found that pronoun preferences align closely with each language's structure.

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·April 12, 2024·5 min read

How Sex and Gender Shape Our Cognition

Researchers released a new study examining how sex and gender influence cognitive abilities. The study analyzed eight cognitive tasks and found that while spatial cognition correlates more with biological factors such as sex at birth and hormones, verbal cognition is more influenced by sociocultural factors like gender identity.

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·July 5, 2023·3 min read

Human Hand Scents: A Novel Tool for Sex Prediction

A new study reveals that the composition of scent compounds on a person's hand can accurately determine their sex. The analysis, using mass spectrometry, successfully predicted an individual's sex with an impressive accuracy rate of 96.67%.

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·August 6, 2022·4 min read

Neuroimaging Study Reveals Fatigue-Related Differences by Age and Gender

Age and gender both appear to affect the relationship between state fatigue and brain activation.

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·May 23, 2022·1 min read

Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Has a Positive Impact on Well-Being

Researchers report that gender-affirming hormone therapy improves both physical and psychological satisfaction for those who use the treatment to attain their true gender identity.

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·February 6, 2022·4 min read

Not Everyone Is Male or Female – The Growing Controversy Over Sex Designation

Researchers say millions of people do not fit neatly into the sex designation assigned to them at birth, and a wrongful identification can set them up for a lifetime of mental health and physical challenges.

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·December 2, 2021·4 min read

Study Finds New Pollutants Associated With an Altered Ratio of Baby Boys to Girls

Changes in human sex ratio at birth are associated with the presence of air and water pollution, a new study reports.

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·August 31, 2021·3 min read

Voices of Reason? Study Links Acoustic Correlations and Gender to Vocal Appeal

Study explores the interactions between articulatory precision and gender to gauge vocal attractiveness.

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·August 17, 2021·5 min read

Structural and Functional Alignment in the Brain Linked to Age, Sex and Cognition

The way in which the brain's wiring aligns with patterns of activity may vary with age, sex, and genetics. The alignments may have implications on cognition, researchers report.