My small attempt to celebrate science and to make it interesting and fun by giving jargon, confusion and elitism a solid beating with the stick of good writing.
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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May 12, 2008
Category: Mimicry
The broad-leaved helleborine mimics chemicals that other plants use to signal the presence of caterpillars to wasps
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May 10, 2008
Category: Psychology
The mere image of eyes can propel people to greater heights of honesty.
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May 9, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Rats will choose food that they know to be unpalatable if they smell it on 'demonstrator' rats.
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May 8, 2008
Category: Insects
For desert locusts, life is about moving with the crowd, or being eaten by it.
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May 6, 2008
Category: Mimicry
Parasitic cuckoos dupe their victims by looking and flying like hawks. But not all birds are fooled...
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May 5, 2008
Category: Fungi
Fungi can corrode pieces of depleted uranium, and convert them into crystalline sheaths of stable minerals.
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May 4, 2008
Category: Obesity
This is a quick follow-up to my other post on fat cells, which as it happens, isn't the only obesity-related story out today. Another paper found a common genetic variant that increases the risk of obesity in its carriers. A...
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Category: Obesity
Children put on weight by growing more fat cells; adults do so by making fat cells fatter
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May 3, 2008
Category: Medicine & health
Two types of cancer, affecting dogs and Tasmanian devils, have evolved into contagious parasites from single tumours
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May 1, 2008
Category: Invertebrates
UVB light damages DNA, but in one jumping spider species, it also attracts females
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