- Robin Anne Smith – How Did Human Brains Get to Be so Big?   – Rob Dunn – Exhausted Writer Discovers First Cave Painting of Yeast   – Cassie Rodenberg – The science of relapse (and when did drinking become a hobby?)   – Scott McNally – Guest Post: End Oil Subsidies? The $4 [...]

Welcome to Monday, the day of the new Image of the Week – check it out. Click through the links within to see more awesome stuff by the same artist. ~~~~ – Amy Shira Teitel – John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero   – Rob Dunn – By looking carefully, Japanese scientist discovers the [...]

Have a great weekend! – Bora Zivkovic – Can We Ask Presidential Candidates about Science?   – Eric R. Olson – Color-Coding Ants [Video]   – Katherine Harmon – Contagious Cancer: Genome Study Reveals How Tasmanian Devil Cancer Has Spread   – Gary Stix – Eternal Sunshine Drug Points the Way Toward Counteracting the Agony [...]

Today we welcome Unofficial Prognosis – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs – please go say Hello in the comments. – Ilana Yurkiewicz – How (not) to think like a doctor   – Jason G. Goldman – Book Review: Babel’s Dawn   – Scott McNally – Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change   – Alex [...]

I am very happy to introduce the newest addition to the Scientific American blog network – Unofficial Prognosis, written by Ilana Yurkiewicz (Twitter). Ilana is a first-year student at Harvard Medical School who created Unofficial Prognosis to capture her reflections through her medical training. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in biology from [...]

Welcome to the Wednesday’s regular feature – the newest Video of the Week. – DNLee – Wordless Wednesday: This is what scientists look like   – David Wogan – Short film dives into landfill gas   – S.E. Gould – Plants that shut out bacterial invaders   – Matthew Sturm – Blizzard! Explained.   – [...]

Do you read Scientific American to stay informed on scientific research and discoveries? If yes, then please nominate us for a Shorty Award in Science: Vote Here – Cassie Rodenberg – All you need is love: the neurochemical jolt and obsession   – Jennifer Ouellette – Special Valentine’s Day Archive Post: Tit for Tat   [...]

Welcome back. As is usually the case on Mondays, we have a new Image of the Week – enjoy! And if you are in this city, join us for a variety of scienc-ey community events: Science events in New York City this week. – Psi Wavefunction – Musings on size: do bacteria want to be [...]

Have a great weekend! – Kevin Zelnio – Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net (and then, once you read this, also go here: #IAmUninsured: An #IAmScience Story)   – Jennifer Frazer – The Wild Life of My Doorsill   – Ellen Berry – Guest Post: 20 US Higher-Education Buildings Earn LEED [...]

We have a new Video of the Week for you. – Robynne Boyd – New Nuclear Reactors Approved   – Maria Konnikova – How a Book about the Future Inspired Me to Look into the Neural Underpinnings of the Past   – Jennifer Ouellette – Don’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model!   – John R. [...]