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Today we are happy to announce the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs - check out Molecules to Medicine!

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- Stephanie Zvan - The Gravity of the Situation

 

- Christina Agapakis- Living Photography

 

- Bora Zivkovic - How barley domesticated its clockandWhy social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?andDomestication – it’s a matter of time (always is for me, that’s my ‘hammer’ for all nails)

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Prime Suspect: Did the Science Consultant Do It?

 

- S.E. Gould - Ancient Diseases of Human Ancestors

 

- Scicurious - Methylating Your Muscle DNA

 

- Lucas Brouwers - Livestock bacteria are as old as the livestock they kill

 

- Ferris Jabr - Know Your Neurons: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron

 

- David Bressan - The Ghosts of Catastrophes Past

 

- Katherine Harmon - Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded In Octopus DNA

 

- Bonnie Swoger - Wikipedia + Journal articles

 

- Jim Perkins - Dots, Spots, and Pixels: What’s In A Name?

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Energy Storage – For More Than Renewables

 

- Alyssa Dykman - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The California Spiny Lobster

 

- Ben Linhoff - Following the Ice: Greenland

 

- John Horgan - What Are Science’s Ugliest Experiments?

 

- Judy Stone - Welcome to Molecules to Medicine!

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Essay Competition By The Journal Development

 

- Joanne Manaster - A Biologist’s Mother’s Day Song and “King of the Nerds” TV Game Show Casting-Urgent

 

- Kelly Oakes - What I missed: Juice, supernova origins, Vesta’s secrets and an invisible exoplanet

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Molecules to Medicine – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogsandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so farandScienceOnline events this month

 

- Mariette DiChristina - How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights

 

- Gary Stix - Walking as Search: Google Glasses May Not Be a Good Idea

 

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