Wish you had a good excuse for ignoring your girl when watching football? Wish you knew the recipe for Love Potion #9? Here are some fancy scientific findings that might shed some light on the wonder that is the male-female relationship:

Study 1 - Men DO have trouble hearing women.
Say what? Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said. NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds. Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.

Study 2 - Creativity linked to sexual success
Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives, which researchers said on Wednesday was no coincidence. Psychologists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University found that professional artists and poets have about twice as many partners as other people. Their creativity seems to act like a sexual magnet. Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in your stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love—and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

Study 3 – Love juice runs dry after a while.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers. The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships. But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups.