Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hardly radical to say that women’s bodies are inherently smaller and weaker than men’s bodies—but research compiled in Starre ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and females process pain, a mouse study finds. When you purchase through links on ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

It’s hardly radical to say that women’s bodies are inherently smaller and weaker than men’s bodies—but research compiled in Starre Vartan’s illuminating new book The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells ...