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Australian Science Magazine: Here be Dragons
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Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)
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Biobabel: On Transposable Elements and Regulatory Evolution
Biocreativity: 2012 Darwin Day Portrait Project
Biocreativity: ECO Art + Science: Sculpture of Ecologist Gary Grossman
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Biodiversity in Focus: The Good, the Bad, and the Zombees
Biodiversity in Focus: Twitter for Scientists (and why you should try it) (#ScienceShare)
Biodiversity in Focus: Dipterist Files - Willi Hennig
Biodiversity in Focus: Citations, Social Media & Science
Biodiversity in Focus: New species wants you to See No Weevil
The Biology Files: Hey, moms. Got science?
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The Biology Files: Alice's Red Queen and resurrected invertebrate warriors
BishopBlog: Time for neuroimaging (and PNAS) to clean up its act
Blank On The Map: Extortion in Prisoner's Dilemma
[bloga.epidemiologica]: epidemiology + culture: stanza ii
[bloga.epidemiologica]: swift-footed muse
Blogging Students (Anthea Lacchia): Beware the perils of postgrad research
Body Horrors: Buzz Kill: Blood-Borne Disease Transmission at the Hajj
Body Horrors: Herpes Gladiatorum: Full Contact Infectious Diseases
Body Horrors: TB or Not TB: The Weirdness that is Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Body Horrors: Of Warts & Men: Meat-Handlers Infected with Human Papillomavirus 7
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Boing Boing (David Ng): The Six Degrees of Bacon
Bones Don't Lie: Choice of Wood in Cremation Pyres
The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!
Bug Girl’s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl’s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media
Byte Size Biology: The Search for Small finds Life on a Gradient
Byte Size Biology: So what’s new with humans?
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Cassandra's Tears: Research on Round-up Tolerant GM Maize
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The Cellular Scale: The "Human Neuron", not so special after all?
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CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!
Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily
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Chimeras: Another genetic puzzle: why is mitochondrial DNA only inherited from the mother's side?
CleanTechnica: Harvesting the Energy in Intermittent, Gusty Winds
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Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands
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Cocktail Party Physics: Make Us Do the Math
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Code for life: Carrots for my neighbour
Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?
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Contagions: What makes a Super-Spreader?
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Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected
Cosmology Science Blog: Cosmic Microwave Angular Resolution Surprise
Cosmology Science Blog: Not Sure about Uncertainty ;-)
Cosmology Science: Did CERN Find a Higgs ? Well not quite. But they probably found a New Particle ! and extended their funding for years
Cosmology Science: Electron No Longer a Fundamental Particle
Cosmology Science: Oldest Spiral galaxy BX442 supports Hubble’s belief: Redshift does not mean expansion
Counterbalanced: Problems in the neurozone
Cracking the Enigma: Clouds
Cracking the Enigma: Autism and the art of campervan maintenance
Cracking the Enigma: The Adventures of DataThief
Curiouser and Curiouser: James Randi: An Honest Liar
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Codes of Conduct, Part II
Curiouser and Curiouser: Mythbusting Makeup: Skepticism and Cosmetic Claims
Curiouser and Curiouser: A Change For The Better: The Geek Manifesto – An Interview With Mark Henderson
Curiouser and Curiouser: Robin Ince – Comedy, Skepticism, And Happiness Through Science
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The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom
The Daily Pennsylvanian: Some hesitant about newly FDA-approved drug Amyvid, Penn researchers criticize Alzheimher's drug, Drug raises questions for Alzheimer’s and Alzheimers drug Amyvid raises ethical questions fused into a single essay.
Deep Politics: SmartMeters Facilitate Cyber War Against US
Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): A wicked bad idear: National Geographic hunts bluefin tuna for entertainment and Eating Wicked Tuna: A marine scientist tries to figure out what the heck is going on fused into a single post.
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): On common names
Deep Sea News (Kevin Zelnio): #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): No fish is an island
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
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Deep Sea News (Alexis Rudd): True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
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Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data
The definitive host: The Deepest Blue
The Demarcationproblem: What chronic stress does to your immune system (cartoon)
Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The "size" of evolutionary change, and why it matters
Denim and Tweed: Is corn the new milk? Evolutionarily speaking, that is.
Denim and Tweed: Evolutionary psychology: A dialogue
Dilworth Design: If it Moves – We Can Improve It: How Japan Can Stop Dumping Radioactive Water in Our Ocean
Dilworth Design: If it Moves – We Can Improve It: Can you Shoot an Arrow Backwards – into Space?
DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy - Effects on (Mis)Communication
Doc Madhattan: In search of the ETs with the distributed computing
Dog Spies: Oh, hello! Why yes, that’s my crotch! (Part 1)
Dog Spies: Why is a stranger’s crotch more interesting than mine? (Part 2)
Doing Good Science: Crime, punishment, and the way forward: in the wake of Sheri Sangji’s death, what should happen to Patrick Harran?
Doing Good Science: Whither mentoring?
Doing Good Science: Gender bias: ethical implications of an empirical finding.
Double X (Melinda Wenner Moyer): When Is It OK To Spank?
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Pregnancy 101: The science behind the wand of destiny
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Pregnancy 101: Fertilization is another way to come together during sex
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Pregnancy 101: On the cervical mucus plug and why I’ve never been more happy to hold something so disgusting in my hand
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Pregnancy 101: Peas made me puke, but not just in the morning
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Pregnancy 101: My placenta looked like meatloaf, but I wasn’t about to eat it.
Double X Science (Jeanne Garbarino): Shmeat and Potatoes: The dinner of the future?
Double X Science (Emily Willingham): Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart?
Double X Science (Emily Willingham): No gene is an island: What do scientists mean when they talk about environment and genes?
Double X Science (Emily Willingham): DoubleXplainer: What is a vagina?
Double X Science (Emily Willingham): Hormonal birth control explainer: a matter of health
Double X Science (Emily Willingham): Motherhood, war, and attachment: what does it all mean?
Download the Universe: SMILE: The Astonishing Destructive Power of Positive Thinking
Elemental: Is Arsenic the Worst Chemical in the World?
Elemental: The Arsenic Diet
Elemental: The Curious Case of the Poisoned Cows
Elemental: Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder
Emily Willingham: How can we solve the wild problem of science communication?
Emily Willingham: Writing about autism science? 10 things
Emily Willingham: Autism, immunity, inflammation, and the New York Times
Emily Willingham: Is a PhD required for good science writing?
Empirical Zeal: The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I)
Empirical Zeal: The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part II)
Endless Forms: Menopausal Whales, Mama’s Boys, and the Conundrum of Reproductive Senescence
Endless Forms: Is “Horse Sense” Overrated? Nonsense Mutation Allows Novel Gaits
Endless Forms: Hyenas Eschew Lent, Chew Donkeys Instead
Endless Forms: Snakes Tune into Prey’s Heartbeat
Endless Forms: Sabertooth Predators Packed a Punch
Endless Forms: “Extinct” Galápagos Tortoises Reappear in Modern Hybrids
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Wool of Snowfall
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Exploring the Mind of the Mountain Gorilla
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Scientists: Get Out There and Inspire!
Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.
Eruptions: How Dangerous is Visiting New Zealand’s White Island?
Eruptions: A Media Guide to Volcanoes
ESC Blog: Cool Insect Viruses
EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net
Extinction Countdown: Recently Discovered Lizard Species Down to 3 Remaining Females
Extinction Countdown: New Polar Bear Counting Method Creates Confusion
Extinction Countdown: The Last 400 Asiatic Lions Need More Room to Grow–but Where Will They Go?
Extinction Countdown: Apps for Apes: Engaging Orangutans with iPads
Extinction Countdown: Poachers Drive Javan Rhino to Extinction in Vietnam
F**k Yeah Molecular Biology: Evolution By Natural Selection: Building My Own Genetic Algorithm
The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle
From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes 'Chemistry'
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change
From The Lab Bench: A Planet Under Pressure, and Why Gender Matters
From The Lab Bench: Putting the 'Fear' in Climate Change
From The Lab Bench: The Nature of Learning, or the Learning of Nature?
From The Lab Bench: Climate Change Communicators Should Listen to the Public
From The Lab Bench: Melancholia and the 'Dance of Death'
From The Lab Bench: Bubbles for Life
From The Lab Bench: Manufactured Landscapes
From The Lab Bench: A Trip Into the Swamps
Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu
Gaines, on Brains: Using psychology to silence your enemies: the speech-jammer gun
Gaines, on Brains: My Neuron (poem)
Gaines, on Brains: Turning trauma into story: the benefits of journaling
Galileo's Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star
Me, Ludwig Boltzmann, Ludwig Boltzmann and I
Gene Expression: White supremacy and white privilege; same coin
Genetic Linkage: If “Fifty Shades of Grey” Had Been Written by a Biology Textbook Author
Genjonesamateurscientist: Why I am qualified
Genjonesamateurscientist:
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GeoSphere: The Art of Geology
The "Germ Guy" Blog: Confessions of a Mercurial Microbiologist: From Germ Guy to Monsieur Microbes…
Girl Meets Whiskey: Why I Still Really Like Jonah Lehrer
Girl Meets Whiskey: DNA: Database of the New Age
Grad Life: Post-doc testimonials on getting a tenure-track job
Great Belt Research Cruise: Day 15: Cruel Summer
Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now
Happy Science: Eating More Chocolate Makes You Skinny
Happy Science: Negative Calorie Food: Science Myths and Legends
Happy science: What Does a Biologist Do All Day?
The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.
The Haystack: How Jagabandhu Das made dasatinib possible
The Haystack: On Birth Control,“Plan B,” and…Batman
The Haystack: Biogen Idec Reveals Clinical Data for (Really) Small Oral MS Drug BG-12
The Haystack: Tetrodotoxin: Why Toxic Is Complicated
The Haystack: Tetrodotoxin: Why Toxic Is Complicated
The Haystack: Antibacterial Resistance – Learning Bacterial Tricks
Healthland Viewpoint - Time: Naomi Wolf's Vagina Aside, What Neuroscience Really Says About Female Desire
Huffington Post Education (Nicholas Warner): In Defense of Algebra
ICBS Everywhere: Science and Spin Are Very Bad Bedfellows
ICBS Everywhere: Are Atheists More Compassionate or Prosocial Than Highly Religious People?
I'm a chordata, Urochordata!: A Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
I'm a chordata, Urochordata!: Diversity Loss v. Environmental Change: The Story of the Paper
Inkfish: I'm a Synesthete. Is Something Wrong with Me?
Inkfish: Life Advice: Think More about Death
Inkfish: How the Need to Pee Helps (and Hurts) Decision Making
Inkfish: Why You Can't Kill a Mosquito with a Raindrop
Inspiring Science: Five common biology myths (or “Science in the service of the anthropocentric patriarchy”)
Inspiring Science: How does an ant colony coordinate its behaviour?
Inspiring Science: Natural selection: selfish genes & emergent properties
Inspiring Science: Book review: Constructing A Language
Inspiring Science: We still don’t know how birds navigate
In the Company of Plants and Rocks: Taxonomy of Agaves and Vino-mezcal
io9 (Maria Konnikova): What Happens When Alice and Anti-Alice Meet? (A Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s 180th Birthday)
io9 (Annalee Newitz): You are bitching about the wrong things when you read an article about science
Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma
Itsy bitsy beetle: The Lone Lizard Beetle Fungus Farmer
JAYFK: Killers that sux
JAYFK: 5 things you should know before dating a scientist
JREF Swift Blog: There Is Nothing Wrong With “I Don’t Know”
JREF Swift Blog: Are Smart People Really Stupid?
JREF Swift Blog: Risk, Emotion, and Global Warming
JREF Swift Blog: How Should We Argue For Vaccination?
Just Like Cooking: Petition Expedition – Cancer in Laundry Detergent?
Just Like Cooking: This Just In - File Under 'Huge Marine Polyethers'
Just Like Cooking: Did Someone Say Pink Slime?
Just Like Cooking: hERG: Legs, Drugs, and Heartbeats
Just Like Cooking: Super Tasters and Smells in Space
Just Like Cooking: The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum
Just Like Cooking: Sunscreen Chemophobia: Oxybenzone
Just Like Cooking: Chemistry Words, with Friends
Just Like Cooking: Friday Fun - Lab Arts-n-Crafts
Just Like Cooking: Arsenic Life Wrap-Up: The Good, the 'Not-So-Good'
Just Like Cooking: Calimari Calligraphy: Same Ink, 160 Million Years Later
Just Like Cooking: R.I.P. Jerome Horwitz, Medicinal Chemist
Just Like Cooking: Chemistry Bumper Cars
Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?
KatiePhD: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
KatiePhD: The Trouble with Teeth…
KatiePhD: Pain-free but itchy: Morphine’s alter ego
LabHomepage: Getting in on the ‘what they think’ meme
Lab Rat: Pathogens that feed off human blood
Laelaps: The Demise of the Komodo Kings
Laelaps: The Long-Lived Legacy of the Cambrian’s “Wonderful Life”
Laelaps: Of Dragons and Diminutive Elephants
Laelaps: A Dirty, Deadly Bite
Laelaps: Unless They’re Zombies, Fossils Don’t Live
Laelaps: Repost: How Tylosaurus Lost Its Fringe, and Other Squamate Stories
Laelaps: Why Popcorn Smells Like a Bearcat’s Butt
Laelaps: I’m an Ape, and I’m Also a Fish
Last Word on Nothing (Sally Adee): Better Living Through Electrochemistry
Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): What beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2) and/or Life without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment
Last Word On Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): The mundaneness of science
Last Word On Nothing (Virginia Hughes): Galápagos Monday: When Conservation Means Killing
Last Word on Nothing (Cameron Walker): Auditing Astronomy Class
Last Word on Nothing (Cassandra Willyard): Embracing My Hubble Moments
Last Word on Nothing (Thomas Hayden): Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology
Last Word on Nothing (Ann Finkbeiner): LWON & Closed-System Sibling Knowledge
Last Word on Nothing (Heather Pringle): Caviar for the Dead
Last Word on Nothing (Virginia Hughes): Women’s Work
Last Word on Nothing (Thomas Hayden): The Mystery of the (Not) Missing Fathers
Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): Summer of Smoke
Last Word on Nothing (Heather Pringle): The Sweetness of Human Evolution
Life is Short, but Snakes are Long: The snakes that eat caviar
Life's Little Mysteries: The 'Infinity Room': One of Many Ways to Imagine Infinity
Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science
Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray
Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside?
Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101
Living Alongside Wildlife: Try Not to Step on Any Pythons
Machines Like Us: Only Child
Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like
Making Science Public: GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment
Making Science Public: Making science policy public: Exploring the pitfalls of public protest
Making Science Public: Carbon and energy/publics and politics
Making Science Public: Making neuroscience public: Neurohype, neuroscepticism and neuroblogging
Making Science Public: Making science (in) public: What we can learn from museums
Making Science Public: Hype, honesty and trust
Making Science Public: Languages of uncertainty
Making Science Public: Waiting for gate-gate
Making Science Public: Not God but Goldilocks? Musings about particle communication
Making Science Public: On seeing, science, and society
Making Science Public: ‘See through science’
Marvell-ous: LIFE=A Closed Loop System!
Marvell-ous: Love at first sight or Resonance
Matt Soniak.com: Slithering through history: Snakes have been primates’ predators, prey and competition
Mental Floss: On Sticking Your Arm Into an Underwater Cavern and Hoping a Catfish Bites You
Mental Floss: Why Does Getting Hit in the Testicles Hurt So Much?
Metageologist:`The Geology of Mount Everest
Metageologist: Oceanic crust – that sinking feeling
Metageologist: Oceanic crust – down to the core
Micro To Tele: Can a sexually transmitted infection literally break your heart?
Micro To Tele: HistoQuarterly: PANCREAS
Micro To Tele: HistoQuarterly: LIVER
Micro To Tele: HistoQuarterly: LYMPH NODE
Micro To Tele: HistoQuarterly: VAS DEFERENS
Mississippi Fruit and Nut Blog: On Why Consumers Must Think for Themselves
Molecular matters: Homeopathy & the Galileo Defence
Molecular matters: Whiny Homeopaths
Moments of Genius: Killing Creativity: Why Kids Draw Pictures of Monsters & Adults Don't
Momma Data: Moms Not Meeting Their Own Breast-Feeding Goals: I'm Not Upset
Momma Data: Placenta Stew with a Side of Pseudo-Science
Momma Data: Playdate with Puberty:The Evidence Behind Early Puberty
My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy
NASA's Martian Diaries Blog: Anatomy of a Decision
Neuroanthropology: Roid Age: steroids in sport and the paradox of pharmacological puritanism
Neuron Culture: “It’s Just a F**king Little 16th Note. But You Have to Play It.”
Neuron Culture: Enough With the ‘Slut Gene’ Already: Behaviors Ain’t Traits
Neuron Culture: Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” and the Perils of Neuro Self-Help, or How Dupe-amine Drove Me Into a Dark Dungeon
Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind
Neurotic Physiology: Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Laptops and WIFI are coming for your SPERM. Again.
Neurotic Physiology: Overeating and Obesity: Should we really call it food addiction?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Social Psychology of Flatulence
Next Scientist: How Writing A Science Blog Saved My PhD
Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: How Universal Is The Mind?
Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: The Affordances of Everyday Things
Notes of Ranvier: The Unsung Scientist, Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Not Exactly Rocket Science: A world within a tumour – new study shows just how complex cancer can be
Not Exactly Rocket Science: Everything you never wanted to know about the mites that eat, crawl, and have sex on your face
Not Exactly Rocket Science: A duplicated gene shaped human brain evolution… and why the genome project missed it
Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Eben Upton at Raspberry Pi
Nottingham Science Blog: The Birdies and Peanuts Experiment
Nottingham Science Blog: Public Lecture - Chris Lintott - Astronomer
Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Prof Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca
Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting
Occam's Corner: What does the Higgs boson look like?
Oh, For the Love of Science!: Nothing Says Baby-Makin’ Like Desiccated Bacon
OnEarth: Turtles All the Way Up
OnEarth: In Fear of Firebugs
OnEarth: Bombing the Blaze: Fire Stopper or Air Show?
OnEarth: That LOLCat You Just ‘Liked’ on Facebook? It’s Probably Scared to Death
OnEarth: Frozen Planet, Part 1: Love Hurts
OnEarth: Is Spring Springing Early? Watching the World Go Round with Henry Thoreau
OnEarth: Death on the Firelines
OnEarth: Age Before Beauty
OnEarth: How the West Was Lost
OnEarth: A Survivor's Story: Did Modern Life Give Me Breast Cancer?
OnEarth: Climate Change Fuels the Perfect Firestorm
OnEarth: That Sinking Feeling: North Carolina Buries Its Head in the (Disappearing) Sand
OnEarth: Save the Whales -- By Hunting Them?
OnEarth: Moon Bears in Distress, All for the Love of Bile
OnEarth: Climate Change Health Costs Add Up to One Big Bill
OnEarth: From Crocs to Cowboys, Saving Florida’s Wild Life
OnEarth: n a Major Policy Reversal, the Forest Service Is Fighting Every Fire This Year -- But at What Cost?
Open Chemical Information and Research: Kinase compounds polypharmacology can it be studied using Mol Wt & Lipophilicity
Opinionator: Friends You Can Count On
Opinionator: Singular Sensations
The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory
Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information
The Panic Virus: The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time
Patient POV: Are Dense-Breast, Right-to-Know Laws Helpful?
Patient POV: MR Imaging, Electronic Test Ordering Creates Waste
PhysicsBuzz: First the Higgs, Next Supersymmetry?
PhysicsBuzz: Does 5-sigma = discovery?
PhysicsBuzz: Can Math Explain Ideological Conflict?
The Plantwise Blog: Creating super banana plants in the fight against nematode worms
The Plantwise Blog: From discovery to eradication: the coconut rhinoceros beetle on Guam
The Plantwise Blog: Quorum-sensing disruption, a new tool for disease management?
The Plantwise Blog: India’s Food Security Challenges
The Plantwise Blog: Stopping Striga before it’s started
Plugged In (Scott Huler): NC Considers Making Sea Level Rise Illegal
Plugged In (Scott Huler): Protest Infrastructure: How Much Trouble Are Protesters, Really?
Popperfont: On Radiohead, genetics, and bringing up children.
Powered by Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs
Powered by Osteons: Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology
Powered by Osteons: Line on the left, one cross each: Bioarchaeology of Crucifixion
Powered by Osteons: A Brief History of Bioarchaeology - Part I: America
Powered by Osteons: Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence
The Primate Diaries: The Good Fight
The Primate Diaries: The Joker’s Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America
The Primate Diaries: The Case of the Missing Polygamists
Projectsatlarge: Transit of Venus. Mt. Wilson Observatory. La Canada. June 2012.
Projectsatlarge: Solar eclipse. May 2012.
Projectsatlarge: A JPL adventure. Behind the scenes.September 2012.
Promega Connections: Under the Weather? Twitter Knew Over a Week Ago
Promega Connections: Purpose of the Potent Pepper
Promega Connections: Why Stress is Bad for Your Cells
Promega Connections: Turqi Tells a Tale: Pharmaceutical Contamination in Water is a Depressing Situation
Promega Connections: Forgot Something? Maybe Your Diet, not Your Age, is to Blame
Providentia: That X-ray Vision
Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?
Providentia: George Armitage Miller and the Magic Number
Providentia: The Problem with Oliver Heaviside
Psycho Babble: American Culture Makes Us Egocentric—Maybe
Psycho Babble: Nounsy Nouns and Verbsy Verbs and Little Wugs Eat Ivy
Psycho Babble: On Drunk Speech
Psych Your Mind: How the Rich are Different from the Poor I: Choice
PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won’t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man… I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.
PsySociety: Algebra Is Necessary, But What About How It’s Taught?
PsySociety: Zombies and Volleyball: The Benefits of the Bystander Effect
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Do vaccines contain toxic chemicals?
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Confessions of a Creationist: the making of a serial killer
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Does beer make you blush? or, why “race” is a myth
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Death of a scientist
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Science on crack, 2: Walter White & cooking crystal meth
Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science
QUEST Community Science Blog: Fantastic Voyage: The Salmon's Uphill Struggle for Survival
QUEST Community Science Blog: Doubt and Denialism: Vaccine Myths Persist in the Face of Science
QUEST Community Science Blog: In Defense of Science: An Interview with NCSE’s Eugenie Scott
Questioning Answers: When poo tells a story (and I'm not talking about Winnie)
Reciprocal Space: What’s your favourite colour?
Reciprocal Space: Sick of Impact Factors
Reconciliation Ecology: Societal Germophobia: the trouble with a culture suffering from OCD
Reconciliation Ecology: Chimpanzee: a nature film where story matters. For our cousins. For ourselves.
Reconciliation Ecology: Of wanton plants and prudish immune systems: late-night thoughts for National Pollinator Week
Reconciliation Ecology: Denialism, skepticism, and the neglected moral crisis of anthropogenic climate change
RedOrbit blogs: Do Plants Feel Pain?
Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness
Reporting on Health: What If Mental Illness is a Universal Experience? A Path Away from Stigma to Timely Treatment and Prevention
Research Through the Eyes of a Biochemist: Young scientists: Responsible researchers or political strategists?
RicochetScience: Engineering a Better Mosquito
Rule of 6ix: The ethics of vaccination
Running Ponies: Get on your bike, Phallostethus cuulong
Running Ponies: If only you could see yourself, Atretochoana eiselti
Safari Ecology: Why is the African Savanna so full of thorns?
Safari Ecology: Exercise like a lion!
Salamander Hours: Self-Diagnosis Affected by Online Symptom List Structure
The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner’s high
The Scicurious Brain: You want that? Well I want it, too! The neuroscience of mimetic desire
The Scicurious Brain: Exercise doesn’t help depression? Let’s take a real look at that study.
The Scicurious Brain: STOP THE PRESSES! We cured heroin addiction.
Science, Art and Storytelling (Anthea Lacchia): The Magic of… Pavements!
Science Beach: Let the musical (r)evolution begin
Science Calling: Seeing through sound
Science Calling: The next chapter of apoptosis research
Science Calling: Living to the extreme
Science Calling: What is native?
Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature’s mice.
Science. How hard can it be?: Remember when science was fun?
Science. How hard can it be?: Biology: Where the Red Queen rules
Science Is Everyone's Story: The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone's Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers
Science left untitled: Cholera riots…!
Science, Philosophy and Society: Planes, Trains and Past Participles
Science, Philosophy and Society: On Altruism
Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn’t Funny – It’s Harmful
Science Sushi: Mythbusting 101: bulking up with bull shark testosterone
Science Sushi: Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not.
Science Sushi: Is Climate Change To Blame For This Year’s West Nile Outbreak?
Science Sushi: Evolution: Out Of The Sea
Scientific American Guest Blog (Caren Cooper ): Retro Science, Part 1
Scientific American Guest Blog (Caren Cooper ): Victorian-Era Citizen Science: Reports of Its Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Scientific American Guest Blog (David Manly): What’s in a Name?
Scientific American Guest Blog (Amy Shira Teitel): John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): To Spot a Liar: An Offices of SciAm Mystery
Scientific American Guest Blog (Kara Rogers): Epigenetics: A Turning Point in Our Understanding of Heredity
Scientific American Guest Blog (Ricki Lewis): A Tale of 2 G-Spots
Scientific American Guest Blog (Paige Brown): The “Sustainability” Paradox–Interview with Paul Ehrlich
Scientific American Guest Blog (Pete Etchells): The PhD’s Guide to Academic Conferences
Scientific American Guest Blog (Amy Shira Teitel): Venus’ Transits through History
Scientific American Guest Blog (See Arr Oh): Cochineal Dye Bugs Starbucks Customers
Scientific American Guest Blog (Alexis Rudd): Singing Snails and Killer Whales: Parallels in Conservation
Scientific American Guest Blog (Deborah Blum): About Pepper Spray
Scientific American Guest Blog (Meera Lee Sethi): Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Learning the Look of Love: That Sly “Come Hither” Stare
Scientific American Guest Blog (Cheryl Murphy): Music can change (the way we see) the world
Scientific American Guest Blog (The Dog Zombie): The Hearty Ingredients of Canis Soup
Scientific American Guest Blog (Paige Brown): Catalytic Clothing–-Purifying Air Goes Trendy
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren’t There
Scientific American Guest Blog (Melanie Tannenbaum): If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?
Scientific American Guest Blog (Sam McNerney): A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain
Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Digital Divide and Social Media: Connectivity Doesn’t End the Digital Divide, Skills Do
Scientific American Guest Blog (Danica Radovanovic): Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big
Scientific American Guest Blog (Harold Johnson): Too Good to Be True: Sea Mammals, Plastic Pollution and a Modern Chimera
Scientific American Guest Blog (Kyle Hill): Bill Nye Is Not a Businessman
Scientific American Guest Blog (Kyle Hill ): This Is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe)
Scientific American Guest Blog (Bob Grumman): M@h*(pOet)?ica
Scientific American Guest Blog (Bob Grumman): M@h*(pOet)?ica: Summerthings
Scientific American Guest Blog (Bob Grumman): M@h*(pOet)?ica – Louis Zukofsky’s Integral
Scientific American Guest Blog (Laura Newman): Global Drug Companies Go for Gold with Aggressive Insulin Analogue Marketing
The Scorpion and the Frog: Magnetoreception is Not a Party For a Supervillain
The Scorpion and the Frog: A Sixth Sense
The Scorpion and the Frog: Baby, You Light Up My World Like Nobody Else
The Scorpion and the Frog: Uncontrollable Love
The Scorpion and the Frog: Snakes Deceive to Get a Little Snuggle
The Scorpion and the Frog: What Do Animals Think of Their Dead?
The Scorpion and the Frog: Sex, Lies and Spider Silk
The Scorpion and the Frog: The "Love Hormone" Pageant and The "Love Hormone" of 2012 fused into one.
The Scorpion and the Frog: Can a Horde of Idiots be a Genius? and Why This Horde of Idiots is No Genius fused into one.
SCWIST Blog: Brains, Behaviour, Girls, and Geeks
SeaMonster: Twilight of the giants in taxonomy
SeaMonster: Biodiversity and the battle for Planet Earth: The graphic novel
The Sieve: Catching Puppies
The Sieve: Mr. Meteor-right
The Sieve: The Story Told By Fingers That Don’t Wrinkle
The Sieve: Atomic super robot in space!
Sifting The Evidence: Kitty and Phineas: Always print the legend?
Sifting the Evidence: Bath salts – does what it says on the tin?
Sifting the Evidence: Dawn of the Replications
Site of Science, Short Stories and (S)photography: Silver Nanoflower
Skulls in the Stars: François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!
Skulls in the Stars: The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)
Skulls in the Stars: “Hairy balls” in optics?
Soapbox Science (Marialuisa Aliotta): Beginnings – Top 10 Tips to Succeed in Your PhD
Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes
Social Dimension: How to Evolve a Constant of the Universe
Social Dimension: The Inbreeding Coefficient of Superheroes
Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean
Southern Fried Science: The horrifying physiological and psychological consequences of being Aquaman
Southern Fried Science: The importance of being Aquaman, or how to save the Atlantean from his briny fate
Southern Fried Science: An open letter to my newborn niece
Southern Limits: Seven Myths Deniers Use To 'Debunk' Peak Oil, Debunked
Space Age Archaeology: Valley of the Cable Ties: the material culture of the contemporary past
Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation
Speakeasy Science: The Science of Mysteries: Instructions for A Deadly Dinner
Speaking of Research: A New Low at NIO: extremists threaten students
Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren't Humboldt Squid Giant?
Squid A Day: Do Cuttlefish Dream Of Aquatic Sheep?
Squid A Day: That Squid On Your Plate Could Inseminate Your Mouth
Squid A Day: Dumpling Squid Prove Sex Ain't Free
Starts with a Bang: So, you've learned that the Sun is going to explode...
The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour
The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Story Collider: Science For Princesses
The Story Collider: Innocence (comic strip)
The Story Collider: A Lesson in Rocketry
The Story Collider: Motion-Induced Blindness
Student Voices (Kyle Hill): Skepticism And The Second Enlightenment
Student Voices (Kyle Hill): How We Represent Risk Isn't Helping Medical Screening (And How To Change It)
Student Voices (Paige Brown): The Great “Detox” Deception
Superbug: Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don’t
Superbug: News: FDA Won’t Act Against Ag Antibiotic Use and FDA Documents Show Agency Once Strongly Opposed Farm Antibiotic Overuse and More News: FDA Curbs One Class of Farm Drugs, perhaps fused into one.
Superbug: India Reports Completely Drug-Resistant TB and Totally Resistant TB: Earliest Cases in Italy and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: A Patient Is Missing and Highest Rates Ever Recorded of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB, perhaps fused into one.
Superbug: Also Receiving Antibiotics on Factory Farms: Shrimp
Superbug: What Industrial Farming Has to Do With Devastated Seas
Superbug: 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
Superbug: Is Childhood Pertussis Vaccine Less Effective Than We Thought?
Superbug: The ‘NIH Superbug’: This Is Happening Every Day
Take it to the Bridge: A Neuroscience Field Guide: Vagusstoff
Take it to the Bridge: A Neuroscience Field Guide: Nerve Growth Factor
Tangled Up in Blue Guy: Just a Reminder
Terra Sigillata: On the loss of a mentor: Al Malkinson, lung cancer researcher, scholar, gentleman
This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)
Three-Toed Sloth: In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
Tim Poisot's blog: What should the next generation of ecological journals look like?
Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins – Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour
Token Skeptic: The Special-Ness Of Species
Token Skeptic: Live-Blogging #ASC2012 – Monday Morning At The Australian Science Communicators National Conference
Trauma Recovery: Parents tell about their children’s recovery from trauma
The Trenches of Discovery: The War of the Immune Worlds
Uncertain Principles: How to Teach Relativity to Your Four-Year Old
Uncertain Principles: How to Read a Scientific Paper
Uncertain Principles: The Physics of Sprints and Kickoff Safety and More Physics of Sprinting fused into one.
Uncertain Principles: Entanglement Is Not That Magic
Universe: Footprints on the Moon
Universe: I Want To Live In A Bathysphere
Universe Today: A New Look at Apollo Samples Supports Ancient Impact Theory
Universe Today: Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer
UrbanAstro.org: What I learned from Mars Curiosity in Times Square
Vintage Space: Apollo’s Youthful Glow
Vintage Space: Kennedy’s Public and Private Thoughts on Apollo
Vintage Space: The Cost of Curiosity
The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi
Watershed Moments: Tree die-off in western North America
Watershed Moments: C is for Communication
Watershed Moments: Food, water & energy
Watershed Moments: Women in Science - Must we all be pioneers?
We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 - Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third
White Coat Underground: Are antipsychotic drugs becoming less effective?
White Coat Underground: Working title
White Coat Underground: Civil disobedience
White Coat Underground: Death smells like vanilla
White Coat Underground: Postscript
The White Noise: Why K2 is Pimps’ Choice for Controlling Young Sex Workers
The White Noise: Science, meet life: Why I write on addiction in the Bronx
The White Noise: Navigating Heroin Abuse on the Streets
Wired Science: (Daniela Hernandez): Scientific Doomsday: Ways the World Could Actually End
Wonderland: The World’s First Bionic Elephants
Wonderland: Plants with Personality
Words in mOcean: I’m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting…
Words in mOcean: Phytoplankton to the rescue: the promise offered by algal biofuels
Words, words, words: Autism, immunity, inflammation, and the New York Times
World Science Festival Blog (Kristopher Hite): One Gene to Rule Them All? The Trouble with Explaining Altruism
World Science Festival Blog (Kristopher Hite): E.O. Wilson’s Controversial Rethink of Altruism
Xylem: To save a spiky endangered shrub….
Yet Another Mathblog: Searching with lies, 1
Your Graphic Health: OMG Everyone Has Genital HPV
Your Graphic Health: Naegleria fowleri wants to pick your brain (and eat it too)!
Your Graphic Health: Chemicals for Breakfast
Your Graphic Health: Erythropoiesis (or why you're never doing "nothing")
Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2