Wired.com has put together this amazing list of social media feeds for science junkies and fans of learning. 

"Taken together, these first pioneering measurements performed on the surface of a comet are profoundly changing our view of these worlds and continuing to shape our impression of the history of the Solar System," says Jean-Pierre Bibring, a lead lander scientist and principal investigator of the CIVA instrument at the IAS in Orsay, France. - Phys.org

From Erika Check Hayden: Packed in liquid nitrogen, the blood would last 14 days—and it had to get safely back to the US. Moses had to get it onto a flight out of the airport near Freetown, the capital, by the day after tomorrow. But first Moses would have to get the samples through a countryside ripped apart by a biological apocalypse. The clock was ticking.

In honor of this tasty drink, Kaitlyn Keller at PLOS Blogs has examined PLOS ONE articles dedicated to the study of beer and the yeast and bacteria that mold its complexity.
Via Gizmodo.

Up until about ten years ago, psychology "had surprisingly little to say about awe," wrote Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt in a 2003 paper. The two psychology professors aimed to outline the key qualities of an awe-inspiring encounter. - Sarah Laskow

"Just because robots can perform on the delicate skin of a grape, should they go to work on the complex web of human fascia?"  From hopesandfears.com.

The evolutionary story of circadian rhythms is under scrutiny in this article by Tina Hesman Saey.

Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death.

I've been asked more than once why I include plagiarism detection in my editorial service offering.