• Three-person DNA IVF stops inherited disease—eight healthy babies born in UK first
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three people—two parents and a female donor. The process, known as pronuclear transfer, was designed to prevent the...
  • Not just hot flashes: The hidden depression crisis in early menopause
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    Premature menopause isn t just a hormonal issue it s a deeply emotional one for many women. A new study reveals that almost 30% experience depression, and it s not just about hormone loss but also grief, identity, and support systems.
  • Not just diabetes: How slightly high blood sugar wrecks men’s sexual health
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    Aging men aren't just battling time—they're up against rising blood sugar. New research reveals that subtle increases in metabolic markers like glucose have more influence on declining sexual health than age or testosterone levels alone....
  • This virus infects millions—and we just discovered its secret weapon
    Monday, June 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    Scientists have discovered a stealthy mechanism that cytomegalovirus (CMV)—the leading infectious cause of birth defects in the U.S.—uses to infiltrate blood vessel cells while evading immune detection. The virus forms a hidden protein...
  • The pleasure prescription: Why more sex means less menopause pain
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    Keeping sex on the schedule may be its own menopause medicine: among 900 women aged 40-79, those active in the last three months reported far less dryness, pain, and irritation, while orgasm and overall satisfaction stayed rock-solid...
  • HIV is surging in over-50s—But campaigns still target the young
    Saturday, June 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    HIV is surging among adults over 50 in sub-Saharan Africa, yet prevention and treatment campaigns still focus mainly on the young. New research reveals older adults face comparable or higher infection rates but remain largely invisible...
  • One shot to stop HIV: MIT's bold vaccine breakthrough
    Thursday, June 19, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Sexual Health News
    Researchers from MIT and Scripps have unveiled a promising new HIV vaccine approach that generates a powerful immune response with just one dose. By combining two immune-boosting adjuvants alum and SMNP the vaccine lingers in lymph nodes...
  • Attachment theory: A new lens for understanding human-AI relationships
    Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, researchers from Waseda University have...
  • Sustained in the brain: How lasting emotions arise from brief stimuli, in humans and mice
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.
  • Horses 'mane' inspiration for new generation of social robots
    Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say researchers.
  • How you handle your home life can boost work performance, shows new study
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    A new study shows that people who proactively reorganise their family routines -- such as adjusting childcare schedules or redistributing domestic responsibilities -- are more likely to demonstrate adaptability and innovation at work.
  • Overimitation begins in infancy but is not yet linked to in-group preference
    Thursday, May 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found that young children engaged in low...
  • When doctors skip the numbers, patients may misjudge the health risks
    Thursday, May 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Doctors can better communicate health numbers and statistical risks to their patients. Decision psychology experts give five strategies for effective patient-physician communication on quantitative medical information.
  • Language isn't just for communication -- it also shapes how sensory experiences are stored in the brain
    Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study.
  • Recessive genes are subject to Darwinian selection
    Thursday, May 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual disability, and reflected in a shorter...
  • Study sheds light on how autistic people communicate
    Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    There is no significant difference in the effectiveness of how autistic and non-autistic people communicate, according to a new study, challenging the stereotype that autistic people struggle to connect with others.
  • Mapping a new brain network for naming
    Tuesday, May 13, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, while an articulatory network in...
  • The origins of language
    Friday, May 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite generation of meaning by combining...
  • Losing a parent may increase children's risk of being bullied
    Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    A new study surveyed 21,000 children in China and found that the association between parental bereavement and school bullying varied by sex of the child and deceased parent, age when the death occurred, and geographical area. Adolescents...
  • Birds form bonds that look a lot like friendship
    Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships.
  • Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship
    Monday, May 5, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Friendship comes with complex pros and cons -- possibly explaining why some individuals are less sociable, according to a new study of gorillas.
  • How is it we feel a sense of agency over our movements?
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    The sensation of controlling one's body and things in the environment is known as sense of agency (SoA). Not only is SoA pivotal for tasks and well-being in everyday life, but its mechanisms have become increasingly important for the...
  • 'Explainable' AI cracks secret language of sticky proteins
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    An AI tool has made a step forward in translating the language proteins use to dictate whether they form sticky clumps similar to those linked to Alzheimer's Disease and around fifty other types of human disease. In a departure from...
  • New 'hidden in plain sight' facial and eye biomarkers for tinnitus severity could unlock path to testing treatments
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Researchers have identified biomarkers for tinnitus severity in subtle facial movements and pupil dilation that can be captured on video recordings. Until now, there has been no objective way to measure tinnitus severity and clinicians...
  • Advancing AI for diverse applications in manufacturing, business and education
    Monday, April 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains a significant challenge. A research...
  • Gene circuits enable more precise control of gene therapy
    Monday, April 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    To help achieve more precise control of gene therapy, engineers have designed a new control circuit that can keep gene expression levels within a target range. The method could be used to deliver genes that could help treat diseases...
  • Awkward. Humans are still better than AI at reading the room
    Thursday, April 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired by the infrastructure of the part of...
  • New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs
    Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Psychologists have developed a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple characteristics, such as age and gender.
  • Adolescents who sleep longer perform better at cognitive tasks
    Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study of adolescents in the US also showed...
  • Listeners use gestures to predict upcoming words
    Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, scientists show that listeners used the...
  • Novel treatment approach for language disorder shows promise
    Monday, April 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped induce neuroplasticity, the brain's...
  • High-tech sticker can identify real human emotions
    Monday, April 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences like anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team has created a...
  • Screen time surprise under grandparents' care
    Friday, April 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    New research has found that nearly half of the time American children spend with their grandparents involves interacting with or watching media on a screen. How that screen time is managed can influence media habits and impact family...
  • Finding friendship at first whiff: Scent plays role in platonic potential
    Thursday, April 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have the potential to be friends -- guided as much by smell as any other sense, research on friendship formation finds.
  • How does our brain regulate generosity?
    Monday, April 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the limbic system) plays an important role in...
  • Sleep matters: Duration, timing, quality and more may affect cardiovascular disease risk
    Monday, April 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Healthy sleep includes multiple components, such as number of hours of sleep per night, how long it takes to fall asleep, daytime functioning and self-reported sleep satisfaction, and addressing these different dimensions of sleep may...
  • Hidden potential in multiple disabilities
    Thursday, April 10, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Using eye-tracking -- a technique for recording and analyzing eye movements -- a team has shown that individuals with multiple disabilities can improve their social and emotional skills. Although these patients are often considered...
  • Lip sync: Study reveals gender differences in preference for lip size
    Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Shifting cultural perceptions of beauty could drive 'lip dysmorphia', so psychologists tested the response of 32 people to altered images of lips to see how they responded. The results were surprising.
  • Even under stress, male-female pairs had each other's backs
    Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    When faced with a potential threat, mice often freeze in place. Moreover, when two animals are together, they typically freeze at the same time, matching each other's periods of immobility. In a new study, researchers found that...
  • Fear of rejection influences how children conform to peers
    Friday, April 4, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    The fear of rejection -- familiar to many children and adults -- can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new research.
  • Common phrases, not fancy words, make you sound more fluent in a foreign language
    Thursday, April 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more fluent than those who rely on rare,...
  • Exposure to air pollution in childhood is associated with reduced brain connectivity
    Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    A new study has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in early and mid childhood have weaker connections between key brain regions. The findings highlight the potential impact of early exposure to air pollution on...
  • PTSD can undermine healthy couple communication when people fear their emotions
    Monday, March 31, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Fear of emotions among couples with PTSD is associated with unproductive communication, according to a new study.
  • Classroom talk plays a key part in the teaching of writing
    Thursday, March 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows.
  • Study explores how characteristics of communications networks affect development of shared social identity, group performance
    Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Researchers explored how the characteristics of communication networks in groups (i.e., density and centralization) affected the development of shared social identity and, as a result, group performance. The study's findings can help...
  • ADHD may be associated with an increased risk of dementia
    Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    An adult brain affected by attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) presents modifications similar to those observed in individuals suffering from dementia. These are the findings of a study which shows that,...
  • Transition point in romantic relationships signals the beginning of their end
    Friday, March 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    The end of a romantic relationship usually does not come out of the blue but is indicated one or two years before the breakup. As the results of a psychological study have demonstrated, the terminal stage of a relationship consists of...
  • How family background can help lead to athletic success
    Thursday, March 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities. But new research suggests that this belief is largely a myth, and that success...
  • To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin
    Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and Dothraki on 'Game of Thrones.'
  • When did human language emerge?
    Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Relationship News
    Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.
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