Here's another one to add to the list of Weird Studies and one bright side to being a nerd in high school. Having sex as a teenager could have a lasting effect on your brain and lead to depression in the future. Well, at least if you're a male hamster. A study conducted by researchers at Ohio State University found that hamsters that had sex when they were 40 days old (the equivalent to being a teenager in humans) were more likely to show signs of depression as adults. To conduct the study, they had one group of male hamsters mate when they were 40 days old (hamsters reach puberty at 21 days). A second group mated when they were 80 days old, while a third wasn't exposed to female hamsters at all. At 120 days, the hamsters were given tests to gauge their mood. The teen sex hamsters were more likely to stop swimming when placed in a shallow pool, a sign of depression. Read More

Since the dawn of wireless technology, it's been a fear amongst the panic-prone that the technology emits radiation that causes brain tumors, mutant babies and plane crashes. Couple that with man's unorthodox paranoia that everything from underwear to Mountain Dew can lower sperm count and we've heard our fair share of "wireless technology will destroy sperm" myths. But according to a new study, this myth might have a basis in truth. Scientists at the Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva in Argentina took sperm samples from 29 healthy men. They separated each sample into two containers. One was placed under a laptop that was transmitting a Wi-Fi signal while the other was placed in the exact same conditions minus the laptop for four hours. What they found was enough to make some men reconsider perching their laptops on their crotch. Their findings, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, stated that 25 percent of the sperm in the samples placed under the laptop stopped swimming as opposed to 14 percent from the control group. Read More

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Scientists have finally devised a way to tell if a woman is faking an orgasm. At least that's how we chose to interpret the data. Psychology professor Barry Komisaruk recorded a woman's brain activity in a series of functional MRI snapshots of the moments leading up to and during orgasm. They took the images and animated them with colors representing the levels of neurological stimulation—dark red was the lowest while white and yellow were the highest. They found that when she achieved orgasm, her entire brain was activated, a phenomenon exceeded only by an epileptic seizure. See their hypnotic results here. Read More