
TGIF: Snails that Fly, or, the Potato Chips of the Ocean
Jennifer Frazer, an AAAS Science Journalism Award–winning science writer, authored The Artful Amoeba blog for Scientific American. She has degrees in biology, plant pathology and science writing.

TGIF: Snails that Fly, or, the Potato Chips of the Ocean

The Wild Life of My Doorsill

Legionnaire's Disease at the Luxor: What Causes It?

Proteus: How Radiolarians Saved Ernst Haeckel

Misery-inducing Norovirus Can Survive for Months -- Perhaps Years -- in Drinking Water

When You Think "Hydrothermal Vents", You Shouldn't Think "Tube Worms"

Nothing Here But a Hole in the Ocean . . .

The Christmas Wreath Lichen in the Corkscrew Swamp Wishes You a Happy Holiday

The Surprising Subject of the First Book of Photographs

The Brain-Eating "Amoeba" Strikes Again

Toxic Red Tides Can Attack By Air, Too

Shimmying Sheet Animals Sense Oxygen With Enzymes That Still Work in You

A Bleeding, Breathing Billboard Starring Serratia

Sponges: The Original Animal House

Serratia marcescens: A Tale of Bleeding Statues, Cursed Polenta, Insect Liquefaction, and Contact Lens Cases

Miraculous Microbes: They Make Holy Statues "Bleed"--and Can Be Deadly, Too
A sinister bacterium implicated in Catholic miracles and "blood"-tainted polenta also kills coral, insects, and are even are up to no good in your contact lens case

A Flower Returns from the Dead

The Surprising Lives of Cycads

Last Call to Help Fight the Forces of Science Ignorance

The Story of Spigelia genuflexa, or, Why Biology Needs YOU

Fountains of Life Found at the Bottom of the Dead Sea

Amoebas for a Better Science Tomorrow

800,000 Manmade Plant Fossils (and counting)

The Mystery Rust of Kivalina, Alaska