December 18, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - Maya Apocalypse, next Mars rover, microgrids, trans-planetary microbes, dopamine and depression, and more.

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- Andy Rivkin - The fight to save planetary science, and why the new Mars rover doesn’t mean victory

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- Caroline Dodds Pennock - The 2012 Apocalypse, or why the world won’t end this week

- Judy Stone - A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 3: Conflict of Interest

- Scicurious - The dopamine side(s) of depression, part 2

- Dawn Santoianni - Guest Post: Are Microgrids the Key to Energy Security?

- Caleb A. Scharf - There’s Something in the Air: Trans-planetary Microbes

- George Musser - Physicists Find a Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics

- Alex Wild - Everest in Two Billion Pixels

- John R. Platt - Logging Could Doom Tiny Australian Possum to Extinction, but One Zoo Offers Hope

- Jason G. Goldman - Science Seeker Editor’s Selections: Music, Knowledge, Cortisol, Language

- Katherine Harmon - Intensive Weight Loss Programs Might Help Reverse Diabetes

- Mariette DiChristina - Which World Will We Face in 2030?

- Daisy Yuhas - Psychology Reveals the Comforts of the Apocalypse

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