Female sexuality more flexible
A new study exploring male and female physical and psychological reactions to, ah, visual stimuli has highlighted a key difference between male and female sexuality. Male arousal patterns were clearly affected by their sexual orientation – straight men were aroused by images of women and gay men by images of men. Women, on the other hand, tended to have a bisexual pattern of arousal – they were equally turned on by images of men and women. Moreover, straight women and lesbians showed no clear difference in what they were aroused by. Ultimately, the study suggests there is a deeply rooted difference between the brains of men and women, and that women choose their sexual partners for reasons other than just physical arousal.
-Zoe cormier
Source: Psychological Science
Scientists clone mule
Idaho Gem the mule has joined Dolly the Sheep and Gene the Cow as the first of her kind to be cloned. As Idaho is the first equine to be cloned, scientists (and their funders) are hopeful that this will one day lead to cloning racehorses. As a champion horse stud can be worth as much as half a million dollars compared to a paltry one hundred thousand dollars for a typical cloned farm animal, researchers are eager to begin replicating the animals.
-Elaine wong
Source: Nature
Video games good for you
Forget what your parents told you – video games are actually good for your eyes. A new study comparing groups of people that don’t play games frequently and those that do found that frequent players have enhanced visual skills. Avid gamers were faster at locating targets and could take in more objects in a given time frame. It was also found that playing for as little as ten hours can bring significant improvements in one’s visual abilities, particularly if the game is a violent, action packed one.
-Elaine wong
Source: Nature
