80beats
80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics.
Do Unhatched Chicks Sleep and Wake In Their Eggs?
- May 8, 2012 10:07 AMZombie Ant Parasite Has Its Own Parasite---a Fungus That Attacks Fungi
- May 7, 2012 3:19 PMGross But Cool: Weaving Blood Vessels with Threads of Human Tissue
- May 7, 2012 1:14 PM
The Loom
A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer.
The Guardian reviews A Planet of Viruses: "Fascinating and enlightening"
- May 8, 2012 9:17 AMHow frogs climbed up into the Lost World: My story in tomorrow's New York Times
- May 7, 2012 8:36 PMThe stories doctors tell, Noah's flood, and more: two interviews on writing about science
- May 7, 2012 11:01 AM
Visual Science
Coherence Bar scours the known world for the most striking and surprising images at the overlap of science and art.
In Search of the World's Oldest Trees
- May 7, 2012 9:33 PMJets Flying Right Over Your Head, Frozen in Time
- April 26, 2012 8:00 AMKodak's Cold War-Era, Pink-Saturated, Camouflage-Detecting Film
- April 20, 2012 12:15 PM
Bad Astronomy
I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.
FOLLOWUP: Heartland Institute's billboards are costing them donors
- May 8, 2012 5:58 AMParallel worlds
- May 7, 2012 1:32 PMAstronomers find a galactic nursery 12.7 billion light years away
- May 7, 2012 10:33 AM
Gene Expression
Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Reification is alright by me!
- May 8, 2012 1:01 AMIt all started with talk.origins (and Usenet)
- May 7, 2012 9:32 PMFinding fake roots
- May 7, 2012 1:56 AM
Discoblog
Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe.
NCBI ROFL: Do women prefer more complex music around ovulation?
- May 7, 2012 7:00 PMNCBI ROFL: Women's sexual and emotional responses to male- and female-produced erotica.
- May 4, 2012 7:00 PMNCBI ROFL: PhDs agree: bees see like me!
- May 3, 2012 7:00 PM
Cosmic Variance
Random samplings from a universe of ideas.
The Case for Naturalism
- May 7, 2012 9:03 AMAvengers Assemble!
- May 4, 2012 11:25 AMAstronomy at the Philadelphia Science Festival
- April 30, 2012 5:48 PM
The Crux
Bright ideas about important, timely issues in science and technology.
To Keep Yourself Healthy: Brush, Floss, and Measure Your Microbes Daily?
- May 4, 2012 1:08 PMHuman Races May Have Biological Meaning, But Races Mean Nothing About Humanity
- May 2, 2012 12:04 PMThe Limits to Environmentalism
- April 27, 2012 11:58 AM
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Dive into the awe-inspiring, beautiful and quirky world of science news with award-winning writer Ed Yong. No previous experience required.
Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?
- May 7, 2012 9:00 AMI've got your missing links right here (5 May 2012)
- May 5, 2012 12:00 PMCarl Zimmer and me and mutant flu and feathery dinosaurs, oh my!
- May 4, 2012 4:59 PM
The Intersection
Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled.
New Blog URL For The Intersection
- September 27, 2011 7:53 AMThe Intersection Has Officially Moved to Science Progress
- September 15, 2011 9:42 AMFacts Don't Persuade Climate Skeptics--So What Does?
- September 14, 2011 10:54 AM
Science Not Fiction
The science of futurist technologies—and an excuse to soak in sci-fi TV shows, books, movies, toys, and video games.
The Geek Rapture and Other Musings of William Gibson
- October 17, 2011 1:02 AMWhat Would Humanity Be Like Without Aging?
- September 9, 2011 9:50 AMThe Human Future Remains Unchosen: An Exegesis of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- September 1, 2011 12:32 PM