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1 month agoHow your FINGER LENGTH could reveal your sexuality
Their results revealed that women with lower 2D:4D are more likely to be lesbian. Meanwhile, men with higher 2D:4D are more likely to be gay. 'Bisexual women are more similar to heterosexual women in digit ratios, but there may be further nuance,' the researchers explained.
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1 month agoDaily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart
Advanced forensic techniques including whole-genome sequencing and epigenetic analysis can differentiate between identical twins in criminal investigations, while GLP-1 drugs show potential in reducing addiction across multiple substances, and researchers have successfully synthesized hexagonal diamond.
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1 month agoClimate change could determine the sex of your child, study reveals
Higher temperatures above 20°C are associated with more female births, with mechanisms varying by region: prenatal mortality from maternal heat stress in sub-Saharan Africa and later effects in India.
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1 month agoIs a 'selfish gene' making a Utah family have twice as many boys as girls?
Such sex 'distorters' have been discovered - and studied in great depth - in laboratory animals such as mice and flies, in which their effects can be detected through selective breeding. 'If you look, more often than not, you find them,' says Nitin Phadnis, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who co-led the study.
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