A comprehensive study of more than 9,000 men with fertility problems has revealed that defects in the semen can lead to hypertension and other health issues.
Investigators at Stanford University’s school of medicine found that poor semen quality can also trigger skin and endocrine disorders.
About 15 percent of all couples have fertility issues and in half of those cases, the male partner has semen deficiencies.
The law in Singapore found it hard to swallow what the man did, and to his peril he cannot digest his crime either and must cool his heels in jail.
The man, a 25-year-old Malaysian electrician, used his mobile phone to take up-skirt video of a woman and swallowed the memory card.
Koo Kiat Boon has been jailed for three months for insulting the modesty of a 28-year-old woman and destroying the evidence.
Investigations showed that Koo took an up-skirt video of the woman standing in front of him on board a bus in the city Sep 3 this year, Xinhua reported citing the prosecutors.
Long sperm swim faster, fertilise more eggsEven when short sperm is given a head-start, long sperm wins the competition comfortably by fertilising more eggs, a study has observed.
According to scientists from University of Sheffield, the chance of a male fathering an offspring may not be a simple race of his sperm to the egg but is influenced by the length of sperm.
“The results demonstrate for the first time in birds that sperm length can influence the fertilisation success of a particular male,” said Clair Bennison from the university’s department of animal and plant sciences.
The name ” Katherine” and “Indian” were among the top words married men searched online, when on the prowl for their next sexual fling.
According to the extramarital dating website AshleyMaddison.com, only the terms “sex,” “fun” and ” Indian” were tapped in the website’s search browser ahead of the name, the Daily Star reported.
Women, on the other hand, were looking for totally different things from affair partners, with ‘sugar daddy’, ‘ sex y’ and ‘female’ topping their list of naughty desires.
Men, who keep a mobile phone in their trouser pocket, could be affected with male fertility, according to a new study led by the University of Exeter.
A team led by Dr Fiona Mathews, of Biosciences at the University of Exeter, conducted a systematic review of the findings from ten studies, including 1,492 samples, with the aim of clarifying the potential role of this environmental exposure.
A new study has revealed that people with complex jobs like architect, lawyers, and social workers among others may end up having longer-lasting memory and thinking abilities than people with less complicated work.
Alan J. Gow, PhD, said that more stimulating work environments might help people retain their thinking skills, and that this might be observed years after they have retired.
Scientists have developed a new contraceptive pill for men which is made from a plant.
The pill is 99 percent effective and it is said to weaken enzymes in sperm so a woman can’t get pregnant, the Daily Star reported.
The pill is developed from a gendarussa plant, which is an Indonesian shrub, and has been used by tribesmen on the island of Papua for years to prevent their wives from getting pregnant.
Professor Bambang Prajogo, of Airlangga University brought the gendarussa plant to his lab to study in 1985 in order to develop the pill.
In a discovery that could possibly persuade smokers to quit, researchers at the Uppsala University in Sweden have found a strong association between smoking and the loss of the male Y chromosome in blood cells.
The same team had previously shown that the loss of the Y chromosome is linked to cancer.
Since only men have the Y chromosome, these results might explain why smoking is a greater risk factor for cancer among men and also why men in general have a shorter life expectancy, the researchers said.
Intimate messaging with strangers on WhatsApp has led to an increase in divorce rates in Italy, according to a leading Italian lawyer. “Forty percent of divorce cases that cited adultery have used WhatsApp messages swapped by unfaithful spouses and their lovers as evidence,” Gian Ettore Gassani, president of the Italian Association of Matrimonial Lawyers, was quoted as having said in the Times of London.
Heavy porn addiction may be driving more teenagers to share more explicit text messages, pictures or videos via smartphones, email or social networking sites, new research reveals.
A team from University of Antwerp, Belgium has found a statistically significant link between pornography and sexting for both boys and girls.
For the study, authors Joris Van Ouytsel, Koen Ponnet, and Michel Walrave, determined whether viewing pornography or watching music videos was predictive of sexting among adolescents.
They analysed media consumption and sexting behaviour of more than 300 teenagers.
Contrary to popular belief, tactics such as spreading malicious rumours, social exclusion and rejection to harm or manipulate others are used more often by boys than girls, says a new research.
At every grade level, boys engaged in such relationally aggressive behaviour more often than girls, showed the findings of the study that followed a cohort of students from middle to high school.
A new study has found that HIV drugs have the capacity to slow down the spread of prostate cancer.
Researchers have shown that the receptor CCR5, best known for its role in HIV therapy, may also be involved in driving the spread of prostate cancer to the bone.
A new study has demonstrated that sperm quality in men reduces with age and it can lead to couple’s infertility and a range of negative health problems for the child.
The study conducted by University of Otago suggested that men waiting longer to have children could have a significant impact on the health of their offspring, Stuff.co.nz reported.
A new book has claimed that lazy employees are actually valuable assets to an organization.
According to ‘ Selfish, Scared and Stupid ‘ by Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory, the “lazy” yet results-driven employee tend to look for an easier way, will actively seek out the shortcut or try to save time, energy and resources and even have a minimum effort, maximum result mindset, News.com.au reported.
A British survey involving 40,000 people has revealed that most men prefer to read books written by male authors and tend to read fewer penned by the opposite sex.
The survey, carried out by Goodreads, an Amazon company and social cataloging website, found that male authors accounted for 90 percent of men’s 50 most-read titles this year while the reverse was true for the women’s titles, Daily Mail reported.
For some men, male authors tend to write in the genres they like to read.
A new study has found that 54 percent of employees don’t feel respected by their bosses in their workplace.
The recent Harvard Business Review survey, which looked at people across a wide range of industries and at a variety of levels, also found that this problem isn’t unique to one industry, the CBS News reported.
An American man has taken gaming to new heights and set a new world record after playing a video game on Mount Everest.
23-year-old William Cruz from Utah, was winner of the fan contest by Ubisoft for the release of their latest first-person shooter adventure series “Far Cry 4”, set in a region of the Himalayas, which gave him the opportunity to climb up the Everest and play the game with a spectacular view in front of him, Fox News reported.
A new study has examined that a long-term testosterone therapy does not increases the risk of prostate cancer.
The study investigators examined three parallel, prospective, ongoing, cumulative registry studies of over 1,000 men and their analysis showed that long-term testosterone therapy in hypogonadal men was safe and did not increase the risk of prostate cancer.
A man from Guisborough near Middlesbrough has become the first British world Scrabble champion in over 21 years, it has been reported.
Craig Beevers has also become the only second Briton to clinch the accolade after the grand final in the ExCel Centre in east London, the first, Mark Nyman, won in 1993, the Independent reported.
The newly crowned victor organizes Scrabble tournaments and has been playing for more than 12 years.
Instead of faking it, coming to terms with the actual equation you share with your boss may help you perform better, a study shows.
Workers are more motivated if they and their supervisors see eye-to-eye about a bad relationship than if they have different views about their relationship, the findings showed.
“Seeing eye-to-eye about the employee-supervisor relationship is equally if not more important than the actual quality of the relationship,” said Fadel Matta, lead investigator and management researcher at the Michigan State University in the US.
Taking the selfie phenomenon to a new level, a 47-year-old British photographer captured an image of himself on top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world.
Taking the selfie atop the 2,723 ft skyscraper, Gerald Donovan could well have taken the world’s highest selfie, The Telegraph reported.
A UAE-based photographer, Donovan used a special panoramic camera controlled by an iPhone app to capture the image.
Aimed at offering a virtual tour of Dubai and a 360 degree panoramic time lapse, Donovan’s photographs are part of the Dubai 360 project.
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The business culture in the banking sector implicitly favours dishonest behaviour, finds a study that could explain why cases of fraud in the banking industry have become common.
The researchers, however, said that bank employees are in principle not more dishonest than their colleagues in other industries.
“Our results suggest that the social norms in the banking sector tend to be more lenient towards dishonest behaviour and thus contribute to the reputational loss in the industry,” said Michel Marechal, professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Entering puberty ahead of their peers increases depression risk over time in both sexes – not just in girls as commonly thought, new research shows.
The researchers, however, noted that the disorder develops differently in girls than in boys.
“It is often believed that going through puberty earlier than peers only contributes to depression in girls,” said study author Karen Rudolph from University of Illinois.
“We found that early maturation can also be a risk for boys as they progress through adolescence, but the timing is different than in girls,” Rudolph added.
Find a rich, funny partner if you want a super sex life.
According to an interesting research, women who have funny, self-confident and high-earning partners report more stronger orgasms.
Psychologist George Gallup and his colleagues from University at Albany interviewed female college students in committed relationships.
The participants rated how often they reached orgasm during sex and this was compared to their partner’s family income, self-confidence and attractiveness, MailOnline reported.
A new study has revealed that men developed navigation skills better than women in order to seek mates.
A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better spatial skills, the ability to mentally manipulate objects, can roam farther and have children with more mates.