Scientific American announced this week that it is terminating many of its blogs and has new guidelines for those that remain. Tabitha M. Powledge considers what this means for blogs in general: "SciAm’s quite reasonable rationale is that it’s a news outlet and so its standards must differ. Does that mean we can expect that blogs (at least blogs associated with Serious Publications) will, inevitably, turn into columns?" Also, some lists of 2014's best science stories.
