Another awesome day on the blogs  – have a great weekend! – Eric Michael Johnson – The Case of the Missing Polygamists   – Krystal D’Costa – Questioning Permanence: Would You Get a QR Code Tattoo?   – David Bressan – January 6, 1912: Continental Drift!   – Caleb A. Scharf – Encounter at Dawn: [...]

- Darren Naish – Did dinosaurs and pterosaurs practise mutual sexual selection?   – Katherine Harmon – Why Is the New Deep-Sea Antarctic Octopus So Pale? and Octopuses Reveals First RNA Editing In Response to Environment   – David Wogan – Waste-to-energy: from pit latrines to biogas   – John R. Platt – Unchained: Indian [...]

As it is Wednesday, we have the brand new Video of the Week for you to watch. – James Byrne – Population Science   – Maria Konnikova – The Psychology Behind Gift-Giving and Generosity   – Jennifer Frazer – When You Think “Hydrothermal Vents”, You Shouldn’t Think “Tube Worms”   – S.E. Gould – How [...]

- Darren Naish – ‘Rigid Swimmer’ and the Cretaceous Ichthyosaur Revolution (part I)   – Krystal D’Costa – The Barry White Syndome: Why Are Deep Voices Attractive?   – John R. Platt – Elephant Week: Poaching and Ivory Smuggling at Record Highs in 2011   – Katherine Harmon – “Zombie” Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees   [...]

Guest Post by Kylie Sturgess Inspired by the Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a collection of blog-entries turned book chapters, taking online investigations and essays and preserving them beyond the life-span of a RSS feed. Plus, it was a great way for a group of young scientists and designers to put their stamp [...]

Welcome back! The long holiday weekend is behind us and we’re ready to tackle a new year. I dug through our traffic statistics and put together a list of the Most Popular #SciAmBlogs Posts of 2011. Being Monday, we have a brand new Image of the Week as well. While some bloggers were finishing their [...]

Every week (or so) I post a quick Q&A with one of our bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better. This week, I chat with Cassie Rodenberg from The White Noise blog. Hello! Let’s start with first things first. What is the name of your blog and why did you [...]

OK, this is totally unscientific. On July 5th we launched the new network. Blogs that launched on that day only had about six months to publish posts, get subscribers to the feed, get noticed, get traffic. On the other hand, the original eight blogs did not have those obstacles but, on the other hand, had [...]

Have a great weekend – see you next year! – Psi Wavefunction – A quick dive into the protist world (Part II): Plastids   – Kelly Oakes – Stars That Go Out With a Bang   – Caleb A. Scharf – The Austere Beauty of Other Worlds   – Cheryl Murphy – Speaking of Crystals, [...]

- Princess Ojiaku – SwM meets SfN11 Day Two: Foot-tapping beats   – Melissa C. Lott – Measuring “Success” in R&D   – Christina Agapakis – Nurturing Next Nature   – Joseph Milton – The NWA of DNA   – Larry Greenemeier – First Fast-Charging Station for E-Cars Goes Live as Part of West Coast [...]