Hawaii’s male crickets can’t hide from their buzzing boogeymen for long. In just a handful of years, cricket-killing parasitic flies have evolved hearing that’s more sensitive to their prey’s new, covert love songs, researchers report February 20 in Current Biology. The nocturnal fly Ormia ochracea lays its eggs on crickets, which hatch into larvae that…
In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, began exploring a new theory that neurons behaved like hedonists. The basic idea was that the human brain was driven by billions of nerve cells that were each trying to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. A year later, he was joined by…
We all deserve pleasure, so why don’t cisgendered women feel entitled to it? The orgasm gap shines a light on not only why strict social norms trap both men and women in unfulfilling sex lives, but how our current sex-positive era may not deliver the sexual liberation women have been waiting for. Guardian Australia lifestyle…
Johni Broome continues to lead the way for Auburn as the NCAA Tournament nears Auburn remains the best team in college basketball and Johni Broome continues to prove why he should be in the National Player of the Year conversation. Sports Seriously There aren’t many weaknesses with Auburn this season. The Tigers have been near…
AMD has finally done it. For years it’s tried to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper, but less capable, video cards like the Radeon 6700 XT and 7900 XT. And sure, it’s still following that same strategy with the new Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT. This time around, though, AMD has produced far more capable hardware,…
Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that his administration was “just getting started”, boasting in a marathon address to Congress that his efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, reorient US foreign policy and escalate a risky trade war marked the beginning of the “most thrilling days in the history of our country” as…