Er, d’oh? Curiosity could be carrying Earth bacteria, and won’t be allowed near any water it finds

These images of SINGLE MOLECULES totally blow my mind

“ONE day soon, mankind will achieve the most amazing feat of all time, and you won’t even notice… We’ll soon have “gone 11.2 billion miles from home using computers not very different to a ZX Spectrum.”

An amazing piece on prion diseases by Maggie Koerth-Baker, that doubles as an op/ed on live-tweeting conferences.

In which Jonathan Eisen learns of an almost-all-male conference and pens an EPIC and hilarious response, which gets results!

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you let your children read this blog post by Dean Burnett. It will rewire their brains. “THREAT