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1960s cartoon show The Flintstones showed us many of the ways in which stone-age man lived.

Technologies such as bird-beak record players, pterodactyl airplanes and rock-breaking brontosauri were abundant at the time. Somehow, we lost our ability to use them, taking thousands of years to rediscover different ways of reproducing them.

And today we have news of another way in which stone-age man was way ahead of his time: the discovery of an ancient stone phallus which was used for striking flints and…you know.

As a “treat-seat” for the ladies. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientific breakthroughs have traditionally been announced to the world at serious, prestigious conferences to an audience of bookish old men dressed in tweed.

So kudos to Douglas Hines, who last week made his big proclamation at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, presumably to an audience of sweaty perverts wearing heavily-stained underpants.

And his revolutionary scientific advance? Why, only a life-sized robotic girlfriend with artificial intelligence and the ability to speak.

What? It was hardly going to be a cure for cancer, now was it? Read the rest of this entry »

When there’s so much serious, life-changing scientific research being done in the world, people often accuse SlantedScience of being obsessed with sex and genitals, like a horny fifteen-year old boy. Partly that’s because we give the majority of stories to local high school kids to write (they’re really cheap), but mostly it’s because when scientists study these subjects they tend to come up with some really bizarre shit.

And after all, it ‘s important that science’s less-exposed areas (such as bats having oral sex and slow-motion video of ehajculating duck penises`) get an airing now and again.

So we come to this: biologists at UC Berkley have just published the results of their work, which show that when a laser is used to shave the tiny spikes off a fruit fly’s penis, the fly was left almost unable to service its female counterparts.

Curing cancer can wait: let’s have more of this, please. Read the rest of this entry »

Story Update!

We missed this previously, but feel compelled to bring you the video which accompanies our recent story about female bats giving their mates oral sex during intercourse, in order to keep his genes within her reach, rather than other females’. Read the rest of this entry »

Some scientists spend their days hunched over a lab bench, trying to find a cure for cancer. We honor them.

Some scientists work endless hours in front of computers, trying to decipher the mysteries of the universe. We respect them.

And some scientists use high-speed cameras to film duck penises shooting out of their owner’s body, corkscrewing down plastic tubes and then uselessly dribbling ejaculate into the air. We love them, and want them to keep doing this forevermore. Read the rest of this entry »