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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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July 31, 2008
Category: Animal behaviour
Atlantic mollies will shift their attentions to smaller, less preferred females if other males are watching.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2008
Category: Animals
Pen-tailed treeshrews drink the alcoholic nectar of the bertam palm at levels that would intoxicate a human.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2008
Category: Language
Cunning experiments show how languages 'adapt' to become more structured and easily learned as they're passed on.
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:00 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2008
Category: Bats
In a (very) loose tie-in with the recent release of the Dark Knight, it's Bat Weekend at Not Exactly Rocket Science, where I'll be reposting a few old but relevant pieces. If you were a biologist looking for astounding...
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July 25, 2008
Category: Parasites
A substantial portion of living tissue in river estuaries is under the control of parasites.
Posted by Ed Yong at 8:46 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2008
Category: Personal
Soooo.... When I started this blog, the intention was to try and use well-written articles on cool discoveries to get people who wouldn't normally read science blogs to be interested in science. I've now been writing for almost two years...
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:52 AM • 107 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2008
Category: Corals
Completely banning fishing on the Great Barrier Reef has unexpectedly prevented outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2008
Category: Spiders
Cooperatively hunting spiders feed more efficiently with family members than strangers, providing support for kin selection theory
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July 19, 2008
Category: Animals
Its claw hits with the force of a rifle bullet and boils the water in front of it.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2008
Category: Animal communication
The grunts of toadfishes are driven by a network of neurons that's conserved in all vocal vertebrates
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