A reader has tipped us to this bizarre contraption, known as "Moaning Lisa," a robotic instrument designed to challenge users to master "the process leading to a female orgasm" using a series of ultrasonic sensors.

Scientists allege it's possible to predict whose marriages will fail by looking at "smile intensity" in childhood photographs.

A recent study shows that Seth Rogen and his troop of bros are right: funny men do get their pick of ladies.

A new study of the effectiveness of the penile-extending device Andropenis in our favorite medical journal, BJU International, shows that Andropenis can make men's dicks bigger, and some men have serious body issues. [Science Daily]

Italian scientists have discovered that hydrogen sulphide, found in rotten eggs and human farts, stimulates erections when injected into human penii. This is good news for one Jezebel reader, concerned about farting during anal sex.

We've always assumed our navels are just for piercing, but Aki Sinkkonen has a new theory on the belly button: he believes that they served the evolutionary purpose of signaling fertility to potential mates.

Awesome, awesome article in the Times yesterday about "a new crop of scientists using their children as research subjects."

A new study asserts that women with high levels of the so-called "Marilyn Monroe" hormone are not only considered more attractive than their peers, but are also more likely to be unfaithful.

The feminist and writer Mary Wollstonecraft met her end at the hands of a medical mystery that killed scores of 18th century mothers. Why?

Says one killjoy in today's New York Times, "Cooking is chemistry, and the only way to know for sure is to employ the scientific method." Um, no thanks. Pass the butter.

Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon puts her finger on host of problems that come along with not getting your child vaccinated because former Playmate and Singled Out host Jenny McCarthy says it causes autism.

In a situation that makes little to no sense to the non-medically trained, an Alabama woman has been arrested and charged with the manslaughter of her unborn daughter because she allegedly severed the child's umbilical cord while it was still inside her uterus. As the Times Daily of Northwest Alabama reports, Jennifer…

2007 marked a baby boomlet, with the most babies born in the United States since 1957. One of the factors behind the baby landslide is the fact that more "professional women who delayed childbearing until their 40s" are having kids, says USA Today, and at least some of those women probably had some help in the…

If you're familiar with Title IX, you probably just think of it as the law forbidding gender discrimination in college and high school sports. But in actuality, the law forbids gender discrimination in all forms of education, and there's a growing call to apply Title IX to science departments receiving federal grants.…

American women are few and far between at the upper levels in the "hard" sciences, otherwise known as physics and chemistry as opposed to biology and medicine. A new group of studies suggest that women — who, according to the Boston Globe constitute "20 percent of the nation's engineers, fewer than one-third of…

Skin care manufacturers always brag about the kind of results their products will deliver, and these days, they're doing it with "science." Creams promise to "refuel surface cells" with "anti-aging triple response" or "reinforce skin's matrix layer by layer." According to a story in the Times of London today, the…