When it comes to scientific discoveries, it can be hard to rally interest.

However, one recent discovery isn’t actually a bore – if anything, it involves a lot of excitement.

Researchers in the U.S have discovered that sex can help improve long-term memory. Among many other things, bedroom antics can help increase brain power, if it happens frequently.

While testing this theory on middle-aged rats, they found that the little rodents made more brain cells after mating.

Mating also meant that they had more neurons in the part of the brain where memories are made.

Whoever would have linked long-term memory with sex? Not us anyway!