• Shock Me like an Electric Eel
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  • Checking the hypercompetence mutants
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    18 hours ago from RRResearch
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    1 day ago from The Phytophactor
  • Extracting energy from a black hole
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    1 day ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Anactinothrips
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    1 day ago from Variety of Life
  • Life and lemons: The Memory Addition
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    2 days ago from Angry by Choice
  • Do migraines cause religion?
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    3 days ago from Epiphenom
  • Evolutionary dynamics in holey fitness landscapes
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    5 days ago from Pleiotropy
  • Pale Terraqueous Globes
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    1 week ago from The Astronomist
  • Hiding hydrogen bonding groups in large druglike molecules
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    1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Pompeii – a Geological Movie-Review : Introducing the Main Character
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    2 weeks ago from History of Geology
  • Can you patent a fraudulent stem cell method? Yes!
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    2 weeks ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • More from The Signature of All Things
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    2 weeks ago from Moss Plants and More
  • New Neopterygian Fishes from the Chinle Formation of Utah
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    2 weeks ago from Chinleana
  • Doing your homework
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    4 weeks ago from Games with Words
  • China’s exceptionally well-preserved fossils may have been the result of a volcanic eruption
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    4 weeks ago from The Allotrope
  • Nitrogen in the snow
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    5 weeks ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Out of Office
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    1 month ago from inkfish
  • How natural processes can create meaning
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    1 month ago from PLEKTIX
  • TMI Friday: When you've literrally had your Chips
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    1 month ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Do carbohydrates play a role In intrinsic immunity?
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    3 months ago from Rule of 6ix
  • AMRC guest blog - the opening of the MND DNA Bank
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    5 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Live coverage of Big Protist Conference (ICOP) in Vancouver, 28 Jul -- 02 Aug
    There's a big protist meeting in Vancouver starting tomorrow, and I've been generously supported by ICOP and ISOP to attend as a reporter. I'd like to invi...
    7 months ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • 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...
    1 year ago from A is for Aspirin
  • 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
    1 year ago from The Biology Files
  • The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl
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    1 year ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
  • Finding a new translation factor, and verifying it with help from my experimental friends
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    1 year ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • 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...
    2 years ago from C6-H12-O6
  • Do Science Bloggers Exercise Free Will?
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    2 years ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    2 years 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...
    2 years ago from Life of a Lab Rat
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
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    2 years 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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