Testosterone Linked to Women's Career Choice

Nervous systems shut down, making it harder to feel pain

(NEWSER) - Orgasms are nice—so nice that, for women at least, they kinda make you invincible. Neuroscientists studied women pleasuring themselves while in MRI body scanners, to see what happens inside the brain during orgasm. They found that 30 different parts of the brain light up with pleasure so strong that the nervous system begins to shut down—making it more difficult for a woman to feel pain, the Sun reports. More»

First of all, that bad mood isn't necessarily her fault

(NEWSER) - Looking to get a little insight into the female brain? LiveScience helps a guy out by offering 10 neat (and revealing) facts about what goes on inside a woman's head:

• It’s not just PMS: A woman’s menstrual cycle actually affects her every day of the month, with hormone levels changing her moods and energy. “It is not entirely an issue of free will,” one doctor says.
• Yep, she can read your mind: Kind of. Women are biologically programmed to be intuitive, because they need to be able to keep their children alive without any means of verbal communication.

Researchers theorize biological clock at work

(NEWSER) - The closer women get to 40, the stronger their sex drive, according to a new study from the University of Texas. Researchers surveyed 900 women about their sex lives, breaking them into three groups: the women at prime fertility (age 19-26), women with declining fertility (age 27-45), and those who were near, or had already gone through, menopause. The middle group reported by far the strongest sex drives, having the most sex, and the most frequent sexual fantasies. More»

They wanted to discuss security; she channeled 'The View'

(NEWSER) - Hillary Clinton was relaxed in her town hall-style address to professional Pakistani women today in Islamabad, discussing “habits of the heart,” like tolerance and compromise, and touting the female doctors sent on US aid missions to Pakistan. It was nice, she said with a chuckle, to not talk about security for once. But the women wanted to talk security, the Christian Science Monitor observes, and they left feeling frustrated. More»

High-iron reds make a poor accompaniment, scientists confirm

(NEWSER) - Researchers conducting intensely necessary studies have confirmed what connoisseurs have always told us: Red wine doesn’t go with fish. Tasters tried 38 red wines and 26 whites while noshing on scallops. They discovered that wines with higher iron content—meaning most reds—unpleasantly accentuated the seafood's “fishy” taste. If researchers added a substance to the wines that masked iron, the taste diminished. More»