June 11, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - dark matter, virgin moths, genome sequencing, BPA, helical bacteria, black holes, aphrodisiac fungus, and more.

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- George Musser - Is Dark Matter a Glimpse of a Deeper Level of Reality?

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- Becky Crew - You’ll have to be hotter than that, virgin moths

- Ricki Lewis - UGS (Universal Genome Sequencing) in the Mid-21st Century

- Frederick S. vom Saal and Patricia A. Hunt - Opinion: FDA’s decision on BPA exposes Catch 22

- S.E. Gould - Helical bacteria: the benefits of being twisted

- Scicurious - Exercise doesn’t help depression? Let’s take a real look at that study.

- Caleb A. Scharf - Black Holes are Everywhere

- John R. Platt - Yarsagumba: Aphrodisiac Fungus Faces Extinction in Nepal

- Krystal D'Costa - Why do we hurry to wait?

- Judith Fong - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Beginning My Journey as a USC Environmental Studies Major

- Hannah Wilson - MSU Dinosaurs: finding eggs at the Graveyard Hills

- Joanne Manaster - Science Video Brainstorming, and Some YouTube Science

- DNLee - The Root 100 2012: Nominate Black Scientists & Engineers

- Melissa C. Lott - U.S. Daily Oil Production At Highest Level Since 1998

- Kelly Oakes - Missed opportunities: cloudy transits, not-so-fast neutrinos and a spare Hubble or two

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Critical Opalescence – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogsandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Ingrid Wickelgren - When Sleeping Turns Deadly and Other Strange Tales from Scientific American MIND

- Christie Wilcox - Time to Vote!

- Katherine Harmon - Statins Are Linked With Fatigue

- Larry Greenemeier - Apple Unveils Future Products, Including iOS 6 with Tighter Facebook TiesandWhat’s in the Air You’re Breathing? Competition Aims to Spur the Development of Personal Air-Pollution Detectors

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