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Ed_Yong.jpgEd 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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February 28, 2009

Parasites can change the balance of entire communities

Category: Parasites

Conspiracy theories, TV thrillers and airport novels are full of the idea that the world is secretly run by a hidden society. We have come up with many names for this shadowy cabal of puppet-masters - the Illuminati, the Freemasons,...

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February 27, 2009

A bad taste in your mouth - moral outrage has origins in physical disgust

Category: Psychology

Foul play elicits the same facial expressions and subjective emotions as disgusting tastes or images.

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February 26, 2009

Voters use child-like judgments when judging political candidates

Category: Politics

Adults and children predict election results equally well by making judgements of competence based on facial appearance.

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February 25, 2009

Fishing expedition reveals unexpected link between Alzheimer's and prion diseases

Category: Brain

The prion protein, of CJD and BSE fame, is the receptor for amyloid-beta, the Alzheimer's plaques peptide.

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The suicide plasterers - aphids that repair their homes with their own bodily fluids

Category: Animal behaviour

This macabre DIY saves the colony's home at the cost of the plasterers' lives.

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February 24, 2009

Male and female mako sharks separated by invisible line in the sea

Category: Fish

Despite being the world's fastest sharks, females stay on the east side and males on the west.

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A year in ScienceBlogs

Category: Personal

Following last week's 400th anniversary post, I have another celebratory announcement. A year ago today*, I set foot in ScienceBlogs for the first time. As previously noted, some things have changed while others are much the same. The posting rate...

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February 23, 2009

Red tides kill seabirds with 'soapy' foam

Category: Conservation

Like oil slicks, this foam wrecks the waterproofing of seabird feathers, leaving them soaked and freezing cold.

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February 22, 2009

Child abuse permanently modifies stress genes in brains of suicide victims

Category: Epigenetics

The brains of suicide victims abused as children reveal epigenetic modifications to a stress gene called NR3C1

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February 21, 2009

The upside of herpes - when one infection protects against another

Category: Viruses

The viruses that cause herpes could protect against bacteria, including (at least in mice) the bubonic plague.

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