- Jag Bhalla – The Cognitive Science of Star Trek   – Kyle Hill – Scour: Why Most Bridges Fail   – Jennifer Ouellette – Dear Guardian: You’ve Been Played   – Bonnie Swoger – It’s not about predators, it’s about journal quality   – Dana Handy – Northern Elephant Seals: Increasing Population, Decreasing Biodiversity [...]

  Check out the new Video of the Week. – Clarissa Ai Ling Lee – The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part   – Donald Stedman – A new way has been found to make truck emissions testing more accurate and less [...]

- David Rothenberg – Discover the Secret of the 17-Year Cicada, But It Won’t Get You Tenure   – Jag Bhalla – We Fit Nature to Us: Evolution’s 2-Way Street   – Andrew P. Han – Prolonging the buzz with Grandma   – Ben Thomas – What’s Individuality, and Where Does It Come From?   [...]

Take a look at the newest Image of the Week! – Hilda Bastian – Dissecting the controversy about early psychological response to disasters and trauma   – Mark Farmer – Winning the War against Cervical Cancer   – Edward Frenkel – An Unheralded Breakthrough: The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics   – Kate Clancy – Your [...]

Those of you reading this are probably most familiar with this science blogging network – the Scientific American blogs. But this is just one of several blog networks hosted by Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Scientific American and/or our partners in other countries. You may remember a few months ago when Nature Network and English-language version [...]

We have just started a Pinterest page – follow it, and let us know how you like it. – Patrick Mustain – Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry   – Gayle Sulik – Angelina Jolie and the One Percent   – Kacy Karlen – Sharing Science Research in the [...]

- Alan Woodward – Is It Quantum Computing Or Not?   – Jag Bhalla – What Rational Really Means   – Samuel Jones – Bush-crow diaries: Settling in with the Borana   – Kalliopi Monoyios – Is Homosexuality Natural? Yes. So is male lactation.   – Jamil Zaki – Eliminating political divides through morality: The [...]

- Joselle Kehoe – Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms   – Dennis Waters – Why Do Sequences Think They Are So Special?   – Kyle Hill – Death By Lens Flare: Drink Into Darkness   – Scott Barry Kaufman – Gorillas Agree: Human Frontal Cortex is Nothing Special   – Maria Konnikova – Want [...]

Enjoy the newest Video of the Week! – Karen Lips – What if there is no happy ending? Science communication as a path to change   – Jag Bhalla – Tools Are In Our Nature   – Samuel McNerney – The Bias Within The Bias   – Jason G. Goldman – Cognitive Chickens and Memorable [...]

Lots of news on the Network today! First – we have launched a new blog – check it out! Second – several of our bloggers were winners or finalists of the ScienceSeeker Awards. Who? See here. Third – we have the new Image of the Week for you to see. – Hilda Bastian – Courage [...]