Snow-making bacteria are everywhere
Category: Bacteria
Some bacteria produce snow and rain by seeding the growth of ice crystals. And they are everywhere.
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:12 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Not Exactly Rocket Science
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Ed lives in London and works at Cancer Research UK. This blog is his attempt to make science interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. Almost all posts will be proper articles that discuss peer-reviewed research, written from the original papers. Ed is an award-winning science writer and has freelanced for Nature, New Scientist and the Economist. He finds writing about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
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February 29, 2008
Communicating chimps and talking humans show activity in same part of the brain
Category: Language
The chimp version of Broca's language-processing area in humans lights up when chimps gesture and call.
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2008
Japanese moths hit by male-killing virus
Category: Animals
Japanese scientists have identified a new virus that affects local moths and kills only males.
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Effects of invading island rats ripple across land and sea
Category: Environment
On islands, introduced rats can trigger a domino effect that hits species living at the tidal zone.
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:01 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Moving in...
Category: Personal
Greetings all, Not Exactly Rocket Science has now officially transformed and rolled out into the ScienceBlogs network. So to readers who have tracked me here, new Not-Exactly-Rocket-Science virgins, my new SciBlings, and people who have mistakenly stumbled here during their...
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:45 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
