Bumblebee. Photo by je-sa.- An alarmist take on publication bias? Ironic! Do scientific results fade over time? Not so much. Yes they do.
- Oh, and arguing that philosophy doesn’t matter? That’s philosophy. Scientists may not admit it, but philosophy of science is important.
- One arm was so small/ it was no arm at all … Tyrannosaur-like abelisaurid dinosaurs had (probably) useless vestigial forelimbs
- Still going. The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been operating for seven years now.
- It’s not just honey bees. North American bumblebee populations are declining, too.
- Not so smug now, are you, Chemistry? Revisions to the Periodic Table will better account for uncertainty around atomic masses.
- Between 500 and 1000 bacteria species. In your mouth. Cold and flu season might be rough for you, but your internal bacterial community is fighting off viruses year-round.
- Always a catch. New desktop rapid-sequencing machines could make genomics truly accessible, but there’s more to genomics than sequencing.
- Not adequately explained by stupidity. Andrew Wakefield’s original study linking vaccines to autism wasn’t just bad science, it was outright fraud.
- When natural selection fails. Stories about natural populations adapting to environmental change are cool, but the cases when adaptation fails may be more imporant.