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  • The Pisocrinidae: Babyface Crinoids
    One question that I haven't yet found an answer to is why the Palaeozoic marine fauna seems to have included so many filter feeders. Cystoids, blastoids, g...
    20 hours ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Radioactivity and Earth's Age
    In the 19th century, the discrepancy between the age of Earth and the age of the cosmos posed a great problem to scientists. Geologists had calculated, usi...
    1 day ago from History of Geology
  • Carabodoidea
    *Dorsum of *Leptotocepheus trimucronatus*, from Balogh & Balogh (1992 vol. 2).* *Belongs within:* Brachypylina. *Contains:* Nippobodidae, *Dampfiella*, *B...
    1 day ago from Variety of Life
  • Further Investigating the Biogeographic Origins of Dinosauria
    New paper out in Palaeontology. *Marsola, J. C., Ferreira, G. S., Langer, M. C., Button, D. J., and R. J. Butler. 2018. Increases in sampling support the s...
    3 days ago from Chinleana
  • Will CADD ever become relevant to drug discovery?
    Let’s face some hard facts first. The good news is that in the last twenty years or so, computer-aided drug design (CADD or computational chemistry) h...
    5 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Russian homeopathy, hiding in plain sight
    It turns out that Russia has its very own brand of bogus medicine:"release-active drugs," or RADs. Dozens of scientific articles have been published claim...
    6 days ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Is this bittersweet?
    Someone called these fruits to TPP's attention and asked if this was bittersweet? Now there isn't a whole lot of bright color along trails at this season...
    1 week ago from The Phytophactor
  • Five Books: A short reading list for chemistry
    Only five books? And the five *best* books? Last month I did an interview via email with Caspar Henderson (who wrote a marvelous bestiary for the new cent...
    5 weeks ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Quantum gravity without gravitons
    *Charles Choi* writes on *Scientific American*: In a paper recently accepted by the journal *Classical and Quantum Gravity*, however, astrophysicist *Ric...
    3 months ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Wrong
    3 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • Planning the GTA work
    My goal for the rest of my time in Andrew Lang's GTA lab is to gather data that constrains estimates of the efficiency of GTA transduction. I have lots o...
    5 months ago from RRResearch
  • Manifestation of Prof Stress
    The Spring semester has ended, which means something from a teaching perspective but not from a research perspective. At least that's true for me. I know o...
    6 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • Bryophyte Herbarium Survey
    Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific institutio...
    1 year ago from Moss Plants and More
  • You can win the Electoral College with 22% of the vote
    Donald Trump is poised to become the next US president, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton received over a million more votes than him (and counting). T...
    2 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • WE MOVED!
    *DEAREST READERS, * *THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. * *FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGI...
    2 years ago from Games with Words
  • Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition)
    There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are still things ...
    3 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
    Hi guys, I've set-up a new science/education blog called* Science Bitez *so I'll be blogging from there from now on! Here's my first Science Bitez post: On ...
    3 years ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • 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...
    7 years ago from Disease Prone
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