#SciAmBlogs Thursday – frozen microbes, global sex tally, heritage apples, a retraction, stink bugs, Lady Gaga’s goals, Jaguar perfume, and more.
- Paige Brown – Colder than Ice: Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Sub-Freezing Conditions - Tim Lahey – HIV and the Global Sex Tally - Layla Eplett – The Heir And The Spare: Preserving Heritage And Heirloom Apples - Pamela Ronald – Lab Life: The Anatomy of a Retraction [...]
By Bora Zivkovic
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- Paige Brown - Colder than Ice: Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Sub-Freezing Conditions
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- Tim Lahey - HIV and the Global Sex Tally
- Layla Eplett - The Heir And The Spare: Preserving Heritage And Heirloom Apples
- Pamela Ronald - Lab Life: The Anatomy of a Retraction
- Jason G. Goldman - You’ll Never Guess How Biologists Lure Jaguars To Camera Traps
- Becky Crew - You’re about to get the stink bugs, America. But no, they won’t be man-faced.
- Melanie Tannenbaum - Lady Gaga, You Shouldn’t Be Doing It For The Applause.
- Ashutosh Jogalekar - The varieties of scientific bashing
- David Wogan - China is now the world’s largest oil importer – in one graphandWhat if the Chinese consumed as much oil as Americans?
- Katie McKissick - Defending the Brown Recluse Spider
- DNLee - What’s this in my backyard? A Camel Cricket
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