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A dab of artificial sweat can hugely increase your chances for romance, according to psychologist Norma McCoy and her student Lisa Pitino at San Francisco State University. They found that a commercial synthetic ?pheromone? tripled the sexual success of women.

In a study of 36 women, they found that sexual behavior with men was three times as high in women who added this sexy chemical to their perfume, compared to women who received a placebo. McCoy believes the additive, known only as Athena Pheromone 10:13, makes women more attractive to men.
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It isn?t only the speed at which people drive that causes car crashes, it?s also the speed of the music they?re listening to. Warren Brodsky of Ben-Gurion University in Israel says drivers who listen to fast music in their cars may have more than twice as many accidents as people who listen to slower tracks.

Previous studies have shown a link between loud music and dangerous driving, but Brodsky wondered if tempo had any effect on driver behavior. To find out, he put a group of 28 students on a driving simulator. Each student drove round the virtual streets of Chicago while listening to different pieces of music, or none at all. The students had an average of seven years? driving experience.
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Sperm counts are falling dramatically across the industrialized world, and scientists are increasingly convinced that pollution is to blame. Studies around the world have shown that average sperm counts in men have dropped by more than half over the past 50 years.

The British Medical Research Council reports that the fertility of Scottish men born since 1970 was 25 per cent less than those born in the 1950s, with sperm counts continuing to drop by two per cent a year. Other research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that, proportionately, a man now produces only about a third as much sperm as a hamster.

Scientists blame hormone-disrupting chemicals that cause cancer and damage the immune system, as well as impairing fertility.
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A Chinese explorer reached America 72 years before Columbus and circled the globe a century before Magellan, according to British amateur historian Gavin Menzies.

Menzies read about an epic voyage undertaken by a Chinese admiral named Zheng He. From 1421 to 1423, backed by the Chinese emperor, Zheng He led more than 100 ships, armed with weapons and loaded with treasure, to the Middle East and Asia. Menzies thinks the admiral continued on to South America and also explored the Caribbean and the Sea of Cortez, near Baja California.
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