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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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May 12, 2008

Orchid lures in pollinating wasps with promise of fresh meat

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

How Big Brother keeps us honest

Category: Psychology

The mere image of eyes can propel people to greater heights of honesty.

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May 9, 2008

Rats succumb to peer pressure too

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

March of the locusts - individuals start moving to avoid cannibals

Category: Insects

For desert locusts, life is about moving with the crowd, or being eaten by it.

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May 6, 2008

Cuckoos mimic hawks to fool small birds

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

Fungi transform depleted uranium into chemically stable minerals

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

Making sense of obesity genes

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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Fat cell number is set in childhood and stays constant in adulthood

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

Dogs and devils - the rise of the contagious cancers

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

Sexy jumping spiders court females with ultraviolet patches

Category: Invertebrates

UVB light damages DNA, but in one jumping spider species, it also attracts females

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