Exciting news: Thoughtomics has moved to Scientific American’s newly launched blogging network! What will this mean for Thoughtomics as a blog? Not much, aside from the cosmetic changes: I’ll keep on blogging about evolutionary research, in the same way as I have been doing for the last couple of years. Aside from Thoughtomics, you will [...]
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 “It is possible to travel back in time” is a bold way to begin a scientific paper by any standard. This promising first sentence appeared in a the respectable journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, earlier this year. The words that follow reveal why: “at the molecular level by reconstructing proteins from extinct organisms.” When [...]  A Lego brick on its own is nothing special. But link some of them together, and you could end up with anything from a medieval castle, to a pirate hideout or a space ship. Since 1947, the Lego company has released thousands of sets under the banner of a variety of different themes. Every one [...]  Masonry is serious business for mason bees. They build their brood cells inside cavities such as hollow reeds, rotting wood or cracks in buildings. They first fill these cells with pollen and nectar, to feed the larvae that will grow inside, before sealing them off with a mix of mud and sand. The mud partitions [...]  This announcement comes a bit late, but the Open Laboratory is now on sale. This science blogging anthology features some of the best science blog posts that were written by various authors in 2010. This offline collection of online science writing has been made possible by Jason Goldman, series editor Bora Zivkovic and dozens of judges. They [...]  The black and white Great Auk was a beautiful bird of bizarre proportions. Its ribbed beak was huge and unwieldy, its legs were too short and its stubby wings were far too small to carry its big body into the air. In these regards, the Great Auk’s clumsy appearance rivals that of the Dodo. And [...] |
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