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  • Ants Reveal How to Build a Tunnel You Can't Fall Down
    It's hard to keep your footing in a steep tunnel made of loose dirt while others are scrambling around and over your body. Harder still in pitch blackne...
    6 hours ago from inkfish
  • TMI Friday: Batteries should NOT be included
    There are some days when you have to ask yourself, just what is the deal with men. I don't mean our general demeanour, or the pretensions of superiority ov...
    9 hours ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Naming a viral disease around the world
    OK so I need a little help. I am a final year PhD student studying the molecular biology of mumpsvirus. As part of my final written thesis I would like to i...
    1 day ago from Rule of 6ix
  • Porcelain Fans
    *Mature specimen of *Rhapydionina deserta*, from Loeblich & Tappan (1964).* Calcareous foraminiferans have been featured on this site before: planktic flo...
    1 day ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Flower parts and then some
    Most if not all of the readers of this blog know their basic floral parts. Generally there's a perianth in two whorls, sepals and petals, and then there's...
    2 days ago from The Phytophactor
  • My pet theory about the human nose: breastfeeding
    Why is the outer nose shaped as it is? Why don't humans just have two holes in the face, rather than this protuberance that we care so much to have the rig...
    2 days ago from Pleiotropy
  • VerbCorner: A Citizen Science project to find out what verbs mean
    Earlier this week, I blogged about our new VerbCorner project. At the end, I promised that there would be more info forthcoming about why we are doing this...
    2 days ago from Games with Words
  • Chaetosphaeriaceae
    *Belongs within:* Sordariales. *Chaetosphaeria inaequalis*, photographed by Lucien Rommelaars. The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a group of saprobic fungi growin...
    2 days ago from Variety of Life
  • Religion is halfway between a fact and an opinion - according to kids and adults
    Is it possible for two people to disagree, and for both to be right? Well it depends, of course, on what they're disagreeing about. If it's a matter of fac...
    4 days ago from Epiphenom
  • Bioengineers go retro to build a calculator from living cells
    Scientists in the US have developed a calculator from living cells, using old-fashioned analog programming. Their hope is that the technology could be used...
    5 days ago from The Allotrope
  • An Ecotourism Vacation
    The end of the school year has me thinking about summer vacations and I have just added a new location to my vacation wish list. The Cape Horn region of so...
    1 week ago from Moss Plants and More
  • A New Non-mammaliaform Eucynodont from the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina
    *Martínez, R. N., Eliana Fernandez, E., and O. A. Alcober. 2013. A new non-mammaliaform eucynodont from the Carnian-Norian Ischigualasto Formation, Northwe...
    1 week ago from Chinleana
  • Poison for pain, the homeopathic way
    At my local mega-grocery store last weekend, I happened to stroll down the aisle dedicated to homeopathic treatments. I saw shelf after shelf of brightl...
    1 week ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • Chemistry, fluid dynamics and an awful radioactive mess
    When it comes to handling radioactive waste the Hanford site in western Washington state is the opposite of a role model. Ever since its reactors started ...
    2 weeks ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Exploding expertise
    How do we decide who to listen to about something chemical? I have a piece in Slate this week (on the brouhaha around the teenager in Florida and the exp...
    2 weeks ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Elasticity of the air
    *Text extracted from "The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring" (1862) by George Arnold* ------------------------------ This can be shown by...
    2 weeks ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Formatting figures for PLOS journals
    A tweet by Jon Eisen last night reminded me what a pain it is to format figures so they are acceptable to the PLOS journals' system. Kate Stafford was ...
    3 weeks ago from RRResearch
  • In the Dark
    Dark matter is the commonest, most elusive stuff in the universe. Can we grasp this great unsolved problem in physics? [image: Interior view of the LUX da...
    4 weeks ago from The Astronomist
  • Happy Easter with a (fake) Dozen Dinosaur Eggs
    *Roy Chapman Andrews* was not only an intrepid explorer and palaeontologist, but also a gifted promoter. The *Central Asiatic Expeditions* in search of fo...
    1 month ago from History of Geology
  • Descent into Madness
    I enjoy the NFL, college hockey and basketball, and a little NASCAR to pass a lazy Sunday afternoon on the couch. However, I'm not a huge follower of any ...
    1 month ago from Angry by Choice
  • The Molecular Circus
    This blog has now moved. Join me for more pharmacological fun, and new and exciting explorations into the minute and magical world of molecules at.... http...
    6 months ago from A is for Aspirin
  • Welcome to Jurassic Park?
    A fictional book that became a dino blockbuster, and it was on the telly last weekend! Jurassic Park is currently the 23rd highest-grossing film of all tim...
    7 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Hey girl. Have you heard about the war on women?
    Image credits (if not credited, public domain) Ron Paul Timothy Dolan Rick Santorum Mike Huckabee Chris Christie Marco Rubio
    9 months ago from The Biology Files
  • The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl
    Image from Hochwagen Lab This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). ...
    11 months ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
  • On math and magic
    I've been on a kick lately of re-reading my old favorite fantasy novels. I started with some of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, and am now going ba...
    1 year ago from PLEKTIX
  • Finding a new translation factor, and verifying it with help from my experimental friends
    Joy of joys my most recent paper has just been published in Nucleic Acids Research! Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] Evolutionary a...
    1 year ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • Free ImageJ Macro -- for citing images
    (of course all IJ macros and IJ itself are free...) So I got sick of constantly clicking away just to resize an image and add some citation text to the bot...
    1 year ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!
    I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it all i...
    1 year ago from C6-H12-O6
  • Do Science Bloggers Exercise Free Will?
    That's the question--as I stare at the census data in search of a juicy trend--that would seem the most sensational and draw the most readers. A trend...t...
    1 year ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    1 year ago from The Large Picture Blog
  • Lab Rat Moving House
    Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will be hos...
    1 year ago from Life of a Lab Rat
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
    Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
    1 year ago from Disease Prone
  • Branson getting into microbial diversity in the deep sea
    Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses how Katri...
    2 years ago from The Greenhouse
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