Ed Yong
Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller on animal-microbe partnerships.
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Meet the menagerie of parasites that can live in human eyes
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Some gnarly eye parasites are accidental guests in the human body. For others, our peepers are prime real estate.
The periodic table is 150 years old this week
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Its creation is a perfect illustration of how science progresses
The Mola Is a Giant Bag of Secrets
The Atlantic 19h 4 tweets
Ocean sunfish are huge, weird, surprisingly graceful—and still mostly a mystery to scientists.
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Ed Yong "“When you start with the normal body plan of a pufferfish” and plunk it in the open ocean, Phillips says, “this is kind of as good as you’re going to get.”" - Love love love 's ode to the ridiculous ocean sunfish. 16h
Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
The Atlantic 27h 21 tweets
As other social networks wage a very public war against misinformation, it’s thriving on Instagram.
On Pluto, It’s Been Spring Since 1990
Marina Koren - The Atlantic 24h 1 tweets
Earth has the best springtime in the solar system.
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Ed Yong This is delightful 24h
The Mysterious, Exploding Asteroid
Marina Koren - The Atlantic 50h 2 tweets
A NASA spacecraft reached a space rock and found it orbited by tiny moons—a phenomenon “never been seen before in any solar-system object.”
Beware the Medusavirus
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 42h 1 tweets
A newly discovered giant virus turns its victims to “stone.”
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Ed Yong More awesome virus coverage at the ol' Atlantic: Here's on the Medusavirus, a newly discovered giant virus that turns its victims to stone. 42h
San Jose, CA - Discovery
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Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science in partnership with San Jose State University!
After Two Decades, a Fishy Genetic Mystery Has Been Solved
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 50h 8 tweets
A scientist faced down the ultimate cold case: How did two groups of fish separately evolve genes for making antifreeze?
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Ed Yong Fish at opposite ends of the world independently evolved antifreeze genes. In 1997, Christina Cheng worked out how the Antarctic ones did it. Two decades later, she has finally solved the origin of the Arctic gene--and it's *complicated*! 50h
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Ed Yong 10pm writing decisions: "maybe if I just turn this garbled protein sequence into a Christmasy jingle, it'll save me a lot of hurt later on." #thralalalalalalalala 49h
Ed Yong We at The Atlantic, being of no party or clique, are happy to cover studies from all oceans including the Arctic and Southern 46h
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature_A New Evolutionary History: Adam Rutherford: 9781615195312: Amazon.com: Gateway
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Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature_A New Evolutionary History [Adam Rutherford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <DIV><B>The bestselling author of <I>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever...
EARTH: The Desert Creep
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Today, we travel to the deserts. Or, actually, the deserts travel to us. What happens if dust swallows up over 30% of the planet? Guests: Sumant Nigam: climate researcher at…
Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Back. Can We Trust the Process that Allows Him to Be?
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His shows will soon start reairing.
What Would a Dog Do on Mars?
Marina Koren - The Atlantic 4d 3 tweets
New art from NASA imagines a rosy but unrealistic future of canines on the distant planet.
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
Sarah Zhang - The Atlantic 4d 25 tweets
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
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Ed Yong DNA tests revealed that one fertility doctor used his own sperm to--secretly, without consent--father at least 48 children. A deeply disturbing story, by 4d
Ed Yong Also, can there be any doubt that is one of the finest science writers working today? There cannot. Her work elevates us all. 4d
Ed Yong Of the many gut-churrning things in 's story, I'm still reeling that THIS is how the first successful documented sperm donation happened. 4d
Songs of Ice and Fire
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Ramin Djawadi’s score for Game of Thrones helped make the show a hit—and made an unlikely star of the composer.
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Ed Yong I will only add to this excellent profile of Ramin Djawadi that the score to Pacific Rim is wonderful and I’ve done a not inconsiderable amount of writing to it. 5d
Christchurch mosque shooting: The faces of the victims
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These are the names of those who have died or are missing.
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Global linkages – a graphic look at the changing Arctic: A Vital Arctic Graphics Report | GRID-Arendal
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UNEA-4 EVENT: Launch of the GEO Vital Arctic GraphicsDate: Wednesday 13 March 2019 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 Venue: Press Conference room As one of the products under the Sixth Global Environment Outlook, the report “Global Linkages – a graphic look at...
Farming Might Be at the Root of F’s and V’s
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The agricultural revolution brought softer foods that could have allowed human mouths to make new sounds.
The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 8d 11 tweets
A plant virus splits its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce, even if they infect different cells.
Ed Yong Necrotic Stunt Virus should be the name of my 8d
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Ed Yong “This is truly a revolutionary result in virology." A plant virus called FBNSV splits its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce **even if they infect different cells.** It's a distributed virus!! 8d
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Ed Yong This really is one of the most mind-blowing things I've written about in recent memory. 8d