80beats
80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics.
How Henrietta Lacks's Cells Became Immortal and Changed Medical Science
- February 8, 2010 6:24 PMGreat Galloping Graphene! IBM's New Transistor Works at Record Speed
- February 8, 2010 4:02 PMStudy: Genetic Variation Programs Some People to Age Faster
- February 8, 2010 12:34 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.
Advisor to the planets^h^h^h stars
- February 8, 2010 2:14 PMEarth Sky interviews me about NASA's future
- February 8, 2010 12:00 PMLooks like the Sun is in its teens again
- February 8, 2010 8:00 AM
Discoblog
Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe.
Eyeless Urchins "See" the Sea With Their Spines
- February 8, 2010 1:15 PMiPad, Not Yet Released, Already Threatening to Bring Its Own Plague: Bad Posture
- February 8, 2010 12:13 PMNCBI ROFL: Hmmm...what should we call this new butt rash?
- February 8, 2010 7:00 AM
The Intersection
Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled.
Commerce Department Proposes Establishment of NOAA Climate Service
- February 8, 2010 11:49 AMAre Liberals Too Condescending?
- February 8, 2010 8:48 AMThe Green Police (Audi Super Bowl Commercial)
- February 7, 2010 10:24 PM
The Loom
A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer.
Darwin Out of Africa
- February 8, 2010 6:00 AMHow Do *You* Spell Brain? [Science Tattoo]
- February 6, 2010 11:36 AMIs Telephony Making Us Stupid?
- February 5, 2010 9:14 AM
Cosmic Variance
Random samplings from a universe of ideas.
Quantum Photosynthesis
- February 5, 2010 8:22 AMSport Science: Human vs. Bow
- February 4, 2010 9:02 AMTime Travel Done Right: A Book Excerpt
- February 3, 2010 8:42 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.
I Compute, Therefore I Am
- October 22, 2009 6:06 PMA Problem for Residents of the Future: Powering Those Futuristic Residences
- October 14, 2009 12:29 PMSurrogates: Life... Only Shallower
- September 25, 2009 4:38 PM
