The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: “A website dedicated to the horrors of pre-anesthetic surgery.” And a wonderful one at that.

Happy anniversary to Jennifer Ouellette and Sean Carroll: read her lovely tribute to falling in love with a physicist.

Emma Marris on cloning extinct animals. I for one would love to see a sabre-tooth cat devour a ground sloth.

David Robson chronicles a brief history of the brain from the first neurons to humans.

What? Huh? Wait.. how did.. UH? What happens when a slinky falls? This apparently.

“What good’s a toolkit if you don’t use it to build something?” Jack Horner’s quest to reverse-engineer a dinosaur

Gauging an area’s biodiversity strictly through the DNA in its dirt.

Greg Dunn creates