Having a headache may be the most clichéd not-in-the-mood excuse in existence for women wanting to avoid sex. But research published in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals that pain really does have a libido-busting effect on women—and, apparently, only women. To arrive at this conclusion, researchers injected...
A long time ago, one of our distant ancestors thought, I want to suck the thick white liquid right outta that cow-boob. Thousands of years later, not much has changed: Americans consume approximately 630 pounds of dairy products—including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream—per year. Whether these...
New research claims that eating directly before going to sleep might increase your risk of developing either breast or prostate cancer (depending which you own), an unfortunate development considering my penchant for gorging on peanut butter pretzels moments before passing out. Specifically, the research found that having...
What goes in must come out. What goes up must come down. And after a dude ejaculates, he sometimes feel really, really sad. Philosophers and scientists have long had a few theories as to why men get these feelings, but now psychology professor Robert Schweitzer of Queensland...
We’ve all experienced them: Those sweaty, miserably humid summer nights when it’s just too hot to sleep. But why does the weather have such an impact on our snooze time? “The brain regulates body temperature and sleep in a shared area called the hypothalamus, so it’s not...
Evaluating the healthiest type of encased meat is sort of like ranking types of ice cream by the same standard. Because every nutritionist I spoke to quickly offered the same response: None of them. “They’re all so high in sodium, and the kind you find on supermarket...
I spend every workday bouncing between feeling like I just shotgunned a gallon of crack water and feeling like I need a month-long hibernation period (normally only about an hour apart). According to science, this isn’t a bipolar disorder, but simply the fact that I’ve been drinking...
Low T is the boogeyman of the male psyche. Even whispers of it possibly rearing its hormonal head are enough to send droves of men to their nearest testosterone clinic for a dose of that sweet, sweet T. But while it’s well-known that things like soy products,...
Sitting on your butt and not doing anything has always been a recipe for dying young (exercise is good for you, yo). But according to new research, being a couch potato also could change the type of person you are before your untimely death. According to Scientific...
If it’s possible to feel like one giant human fart, vacation eating will do it. All it takes is even a couple days away from the comforts of home, without a steady supply of water or any remotely light snacks, no rhyme to meal times or reason...
Is there anything music can’t do? First, we told you how music is scientifically proven to make sex better. Then we told you how it can help you better perform CPR. Now, we’re telling you that once you’re done having sex and/or bringing someone back from the...
Oh crap. Literally. You were on the toilet, coincidentally reading about how disgusting our phones are, when you got to the part where a guy contracted ebola from a stolen cell phone. You were so shocked that you dropped the phone and heard that dreaded “plunk” sound:...