Stories by Carin Bondar

Video of the Week: October 24, 2013 Sloth researcher Rebecca “Becky” Cliffe, a PhD candidate hailing from the UK but doing field work in Costa Rica, was out following up on one of her tagged research sloths, when a female named Madonna, who had been raised in the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica and released [...]

Ok folks. Sometimes in life, the timing of events cannot be controlled. Last year I created an entire short-film dedicated to the top ‘would-be’ science stories of 2012, because let’s face it, sometimes a really big thing happens that grabs everyone’s attention, and stories that happen to come out at the same time are eclipsed.

My ‘Adventures in Biology’ series continues this week with another story from my travels to the island of Moorea in French Polynesia.

I recently returned from a rather EPIC trip to Australia, where I was grateful to be a part of one of the coolest new trends in the world: partying for SCIENCE.

September was an industrious month at the Scientific American blog network. We welcomed a new set of writers to the ‘Food Matters‘ blog, and many other regulars jumped onto the topic of food as well.

This is a Guest Post by Stephanie Yin, a graduate of Brown University with a degree in environmental science. Yin is interested in using all forms of multimedia storytelling to convey contemporary science.

This past spring I was lucky enough to partner up with Tahiti Tourisme to create a series about biology on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia.

What a summer of love at Scientific American. It’s always difficult for me to select a small number of posts for the ‘Best of the Blogs’ video, because so many of them are so excellent.

What a summer of love at Scientific American. It’s always difficult for me to select a small number of posts for the ‘Best of the Blogs’ video, because so many of them are so excellent.

What a great summer here at the Scientific American blog network. Peahens fitted with robo-cameras, a blue exoplanet and a Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany.

I just returned from an epic adventure in Australia. I visited many marine research stations, and of course did some diving on the Great Barrier Reef.

Hollywood has some excellent heroes and villains that are capable of doing some pretty amazing things. However, movie characters cannot begin to touch those that have superpowers bestowed by evolution.

Henry Reich, the mastermind behind the YouTube sensation Minute Physics, has created another channel. Minute Earth shares stories about science and our planet with the finesse and fast pace that we’ve all come to expect from Reich and his team (which includes Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Rose Eveleth, Emily Elert, John Guittar and Nathaniel Schroeder).

In the past week I’ve seen several videos of alligator wranglers in rather ‘unfortunate’ circumstances. The first, posted earlier this week on Animal Planet, shows Bob Freer of Homestead Florida in a tense encounter with a large gator.