Here's a handy test. Look at your fingers. The longer your ring finger is compared to your index finger, the more testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. The average ratio for women is 0.991 and 0.982 for men. Consequently, those with higher testosterone levels (i.e. men) tend to perform better at spatial tasks. While ... [Read More]

The Norwegian government is preparing for the worst and putting seeds from around the world on ice. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault aka the "Doomsday Vault" which is kept a constant temperature of minus 18C, will house as many as 2 billion seeds, everything from soybeans to barley. The idea is that should some global catastrophe ... [Read More]

The robot revolution is coming, in more ways than one. Researchers at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health are taking a page from nature and modeling nanobots after nature's little workhorse. Sperm are the model of efficiency, able to swim 7 iph (inches per hour) or the equivalent of a full grown man ... [Read More]

Eerily similar to the comic book Y: The Last Man, in which a female scientist's attempt to clone herself unleashes a plague that wipes out all men, British scientists have created sperm from female stem cells. The process literally takes men out of the equation. This artificial sperm lacks the Y chromosome, which only men ... [Read More]

Stacey Gayle had problem, every time she listened to rap especially Sean Paul's "Temperature" she would start foaming at the mouth and flopping around on the floor like a fish out of water. Apparently, she'd never heard the joke "doctor it hurts when I do this." Undeterred she sought help at the Long Island Jewish Medical ... [Read More]

Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Center of Cardiovascular Repair have reanimated the heart of a dead rat using a process known as decellularisation. Literally washing away the dead cells with powerful detergents thus leaving only its empty shell. They then injected it with the heart cells of newborn rats and ... [Read More]

Zombie Wars is the perfect movie for a drinking game that is. Just have a sip every time someone does or says something cliche and you'll be wasted before your first bathroom break. It takes place in a post apocalyptic future where humanity has been overrun by zombies and the few remaining survivors have, for reasons not ... [Read More]