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Chemistry

Men and women's hands can be distinguished just from their scent

Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which may be useful in figuring out information about crime scenes

News

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Society

Men predicted to outnumber women in physics until the year 2158

News

This photo illustration shows the DALL-E website reflected between a computer screen and cellphone in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2022. - A million people eager to dabble with a new artificial intelligence tool that lets them create images simply by describing them with words will soon get their wish, its creators said Wednesday. Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI is conducting a wide-scale beta test of DALL-E, a cutting-edge software that creates images from textual descriptions. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

AI art tool DALL-E 2 adds 'black' or 'female' to some image prompts

News

Frans de Waal on what apes can teach us about sex and gender

Humans

Frans de Waal on what apes can teach us about sex and gender

Features

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Humans

What myths of warrior women tell us about identity and gender politics

Comment

children writing

Humans

Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys

News

The gender pain gap has gone on for too long – it's time we closed it

Health

The gender pain gap has gone on for too long – it's time we closed it

Comment

scientists at work

Humans

Female inventors hold just a quarter of US biomedical patents

News

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Life

Many female animals are evolving to look more attractive to mates

News

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Humans

Men and women in early Americas shared hunting duties equally

A young woman, buried with stone weapons 9000 years ago in what is now Peru, has led to a reassessment of the role women played as hunters across the Americas in prehistory

News

Health

How defining women as baby-makers backfired spectacularly on science

Culture

Humans

How academic institutions make it harder to be a female scientist

Culture

Health

Managers who think gender bias isn’t a problem make it worse

News

Video

Neuroscientist Gina Rippon: Busting the myth of male and female brains

Video