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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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June 30, 2008

Gestures reveal universal word order, regardless of language

Category: Language

People communicating with gestures put objects before verbs, regardless of whether they speak English, Turkish or Chinese.

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June 28, 2008

Neutralising anthrax by gumming up a molecular lock

Category: Medicine & health

A potential new treatment for anthrax works by gumming up molecular locks on the host's own cells.

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June 27, 2008

Cuttlefish learn from watching potential prey even before they are born

Category: Animals

Unhatched cuttlefish embryos can use visual information from the outside world to fix their later prey preferences

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June 26, 2008

Death-trap or fortress - the two web designs of black widow spiders

Category: Animals

Hungry black widows spin deadly death-traps, but well-fed ones change architecture completely in favour of a fortress

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June 25, 2008

Crocodiles signal hatching time by calling from inside their eggs

Category: Animals

This is the first experimental evidence of the purpose of calls that crocodiles make within their eggs

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June 24, 2008

Lions killed by perfect storm of changing climate, virus and parasites

Category: Animals

Two lion populations were hit by epidemics caused by a triple-whammy of drought, viruses and blood parasites.

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June 23, 2008

Fish make rapid comeback in the world's largest no-fishing zone

Category: Conservation

The Great Barrier Reef's most exploited fish is bouncing back just two years after a fishing ban

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June 21, 2008

Round peg, square hole - why our bird flu drugs are a fluke

Category: Medicine & health

The structure of a bird flu protein reveals that it's a fluke that Tamiflu actually works

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June 20, 2008

Brains of gay people resemble those of straight people of opposite sex

Category: Neuroscience

Brain scans show similarities in shape and connections between gay brains and straight ones from the opposite sex.

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June 18, 2008

Chimps call during sex to confuse fathers, recruit defenders and avoid competitors

Category: Animal behaviour

Chimps make distinctive calls during sex and a new study reveals their purpose by considering who's listening

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