The Sciences
Quantum Computing Simplified
We live in a world where technology is changing rapidly. We are facing new technologies daily. These technologies are changing our lives and helping us to live better.
Guest Blog
Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American
Mind & Brain
We Are All Politicians Now: Science Communication and the Romney 47 Percent Video
This week, presidential candidate Mitt Romney got into hot water after he made some remarks at a fundraiser attended by the wealthy that seemed to denigrate middle-class and poor Americans...
Health
Can the Source of Funding for Medical Research Affect the Results?
Many clinical research studies are funded by pharmaceutical companies and there is a general perception that such industry-based funding could potentially skew the results in favor of a new medication or device...
The Sciences
M@h*(pOet)?ica-Louis Zukofsky's Integral
Editor's note (11/7/13): Find the entry point and new posts of Bob Grumman's M@h*(pOet)?ica at http://poeticks.com/ #StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip...
Environment
Arctic Sea Ice: What, Why, and What Next
On September 19 th , NSIDC, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, announced that Arctic sea ice has shrunk as far as it will shrink this summer, and that the ice is beginning to reform, expanding the floating ice cap that covers the North Pole and the seas around it...
The Sciences
How to Not Find What You're Looking For
On August 7th, Zookeys published a paper on the discovery of the Semachrysa jade , a new species of the insect green lacewing. The discovery was noteworthy enough to be picked up by Science two days later because Shaun Winterton, the primary researcher, didn't encounter the insect in its native Malaysia, but on the photo-sharing website Flickr.The discovery made by Winterton and photographer Hock Ping Guek should be heartwarming—not just for utopian-minded futurists and procrastinators seeking justification, but for researchers looking to capitalize on the largest centralized repository of information ever seen...
Evolution
What's in a Name?
As Shakespeare wrote in Romeo & Juliet, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet.”He was right that words may change, but the appearance or physical features of the object in question will not...
The Sciences
Chasing Laplace's Demon
Warming up - Here's your task: Come up with a stock market portfolio in the next 30 seconds (if you already have a portfolio, pretend you don't for the sake of this exercise)...
Evolution
Junk DNA, Junky PR
A week ago, a huge, painstakingly orchestrated PR campaign was timed to coincide with multiple publications of a long-term study by the ENCODE consortium in top-ranking journals.
Evolution
Killer Skills of a Neutrophil
I'd like to tell you a secret. I am a superhero. I can devour my enemies whole, release my own chemical weapons and trap and kill my prey in nets spun from my own DNA.
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Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Dog Spies
Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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Climate science in a changing world
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Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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