Meet Throb, your new go-to resource for everything that's science and sex, launched as a collaboration between the Gawker blogs io9 and Gizmodo. Among its posts you'll discover juicy tidbits from...
In the modern rendering of the alpha male, the promise of access to territories, resources and protection for mating females is largely nonexistent -- as is any notion of parental care investment...
Tritium that gets into the body is able to release beta particles, which are prone to altering our cells in nasty ways, resulting in cancer, mutation and death. But there is a way to reduce expos...
In 2005, a protein was discovered on the surface of sperm thought to enable binding to the egg. Researchers named the protein Izumo, after the Izumo-taisha in Japan, a shrine dedicated to Okuninu...
Nature defies our wildest imaginings, pushing the boundaries of what we know as possible. In some crocodilians, the female sex apparatus is so large, it is easy to confuse it with that of the mal...
Carin Bondar, the scientist who brought us the web series Wild Sex -- about the weird and kinky sex rituals in the animal kingdom -- is working on a new show about the wondrous place where sex an...
"In one study, US psychologists investigated social grooming in humans by asking participants to indicate their closest emotional relationship and report behaviors such as running their fingers t...
A study reveals that women are twice as likely to orgasm during sex with a partner than they are during casual sex. While its easy to chalk this up to stereotypes about women and their need for "...
"La petite mort," or "the little death," is a timeless favorite for describing orgasm. Of course, there's the little death and then there's having sex until you disintegrate. For the antechinus, ...
On the eve of the millennium, the Bloodhound Gang released a song with an earworm of a chorus: "You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." T...