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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 »

Scientists at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)  in Frederick, Maryland work with various nasty pathogens. They’re the kinds of bugs which, experts predict, would be likely candidates for biological terrorist attacks – anthrax, that sort of thing. Well, someone apparently didn’t follow the rigorous safe-handling procedures correctly, as one of the boffins has contracted a disease known as tularemia, or rabbit fever.

We do not believe the reports claiming that co-workers’ suspicions were first aroused when the researcher began ordering 50-lb bags of carrots delivered to their lab. Read the rest of this entry »

If you arrived here after an internet search for ‘nude mice‘, then you’re either in need of psychiatric care, or else you’d like some more information on a very important laboratory animal. Or both.

Either way: welcome!

Our recent story, describing the significance  of the naked mole rat in cancer research, reminded us of another example of nudity in this field. And so we give to you the nude mouse: over 40 years at the forefront of the race to develop new treatments for cancer and other diseases. Read the rest of this entry »

With thanks to my wife Tanya for the malapropic title, I declare this blog open.

My aim is to bring you news of the latest scientific research and results, salted with a grain or two of humour. Please feel free to leave comments, whether they be serious, silly, or links to videos of cats doing things that only humans normally do.

Because those things are filarious.

If you have questions (Who invented the colour green?) , suggestions (Hey loser why don,t you suck my dick you loser LOL!!!!!!!!!!1) or marriage proposals (Hi I am named Katrina Bzorgansky and I am live in Kiev. I would like marry you and be happy. Meet me and lots more of my hot Russian single girls at lonelymugs.com), then here’s where you need to send them:

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Wishing us all the best of luck, and may we all learn something from this. While having a chuckle.