Stone tools suggest Homo sap enjoyed Arabian nights earlier than previously thought. The State of the Union and the state of US science. #SciO11: How to explain science on blogs plus the state of women bloggers
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Penguins tagged with flipper bands are at a disadvantage.
Why did Jared Loughner shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people in Tucson? Plus what went on at ScienceOnline2011, aka #scio11: video, e-books, and much more
Ten travel fellowships of $2,500 apiece will be award by the National Association of Science Writers in memory of past President Laura Van Dam for the meeting of the World Conference of Science Journalists in Cairo, scheduled for June 27-29, 2011. Plus other recent ScienceWriters news.
When push comes to shove, butterflies adjust to the seasons in order to increase their chances of reproducing.
You can be part of ScienceOnline2011, thanks to NASW. It's easy and it's free to all.
The research showing that vaccines cause autism is a deliberate hoax, but the arsenic bug tale is self-correcting science. Also, blogger list, top 2010 stories list, Science Online 2011 (#SciO11)
Does Jonah Lehrer's New Yorker piece hurt science? Plus yet another week of the arsenic bug and the spotlight it shines on science writing. Plus blogs as newspapers-of-record.
Last week's news: The bacterium that substitutes arsenic for phosphorus is not, after all, from outer space. This week's news: Many scientists doubt that the bug is even very good at substituting arsenic for phosphorus.
Aliens abduct bloggers! Or did bloggers abduct aliens? And did you hear, they all ate arsenic at a NASA press conference! Anyway, things are a bit better for HIV infection and AIDS.