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Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer based in London. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make the latest scientific discoveries interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. He finds writing about himself in the third person strange and unsettling.
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June 30, 2008
Category: Language
People communicating with gestures put objects before verbs, regardless of whether they speak English, Turkish or Chinese.
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2008
Category: Medicine & health
A potential new treatment for anthrax works by gumming up molecular locks on the host's own cells.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2008
Category: Animals
Unhatched cuttlefish embryos can use visual information from the outside world to fix their later prey preferences
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2008
Category: Animals
Hungry black widows spin deadly death-traps, but well-fed ones change architecture completely in favour of a fortress
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2008
Category: Animals
This is the first experimental evidence of the purpose of calls that crocodiles make within their eggs
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2008
Category: Animals
Two lion populations were hit by epidemics caused by a triple-whammy of drought, viruses and blood parasites.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 23, 2008
Category: Conservation
The Great Barrier Reef's most exploited fish is bouncing back just two years after a fishing ban
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2008
Category: Medicine & health
The structure of a bird flu protein reveals that it's a fluke that Tamiflu actually works
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Brain scans show similarities in shape and connections between gay brains and straight ones from the opposite sex.
Posted by Ed Yong at 3:14 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Chimps make distinctive calls during sex and a new study reveals their purpose by considering who's listening
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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