(Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

If you thought science was boring, think again.

Because an Italian blog called Tette per la Scienza (which translates as ‘tits for science’) is making waves online… and it’s anything but dull.

The project is the brainchild of 30-year-old paleoanthropologist Lara Tait, and features hundreds of images of women posing in various states of undress, holding signs which relate to science.

One of the most striking images on the site features a bare-breasted woman with striking red hair, holding a sign with the myth-busting statement ‘Red hair is not facing extinction’


Meanwhile another shot shows a woman in suspenders holding a sign which reads ‘Vegetable protein doesn’t have the same biological value as animal protein’.

Bottoms up! (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

This woman’s sign states that hydrogen peroxide does not cure cancer (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)



And although, as the name suggests, Tette per la scienza started out as a woman-only project, dozens of men have now got on board too, to bare their bodies and share their science knowledge.

Tette per la Scienza is making waves in Italy (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

‘It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear’ Henry David Thoreau (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

And while at first look it may all seem a bit of a laugh, Lara told Metro.co.uk that the blog actually has a very serious agenda.

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A woman holds a sign in support of the Rosetta scientists (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

She explained: ‘We set up the blog because the perception of science in Italy is dramatically in danger. Researchers get death threatens daily, labs get assaulted, politicians ignore us and cut the budget for research, school and universities.’

Hair today, not gone tomorrow (Picture: Tette per la Scienza)

She went on: ‘We think there’s a need for new radical solution. Our is one of the many possible, probably not the best, but we want to do our part of work on the front line.’

Yes, this is science, but not as you know it.

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