I've got your missing links right here (2 July 2011)

Top picks“If this were true adios theory.” Darwin's margin scribbles show the evolution of a theory Video games that use living microbes It's survival of the weakest when bacteria play rock-paper-scissors Humans guided evolution of dog barks The last Indian vultures, and the feral dogs that are replacing them A fascinating piece about the real secrets behind Area 51 (no, really), involving stealth planes and a mystery illness Thomas Knudsen carefully poisons a 3-week-old human embryo... in a computer. What do you get when you put a terrorist inside of a brain scanner? We don’t know. Important piece by Virginia Hughes "These critters are hell-for-leather, flat-out just gonna get there." Wonderful David Quammen piece on animal migrations The evolution machine: genetic engineering on fast-forward, a great story by Jo Marchant Beetles with screws and nuts in their legsNews/science/writingHow airplanes punch spreading holes in clouds, cause snowfall The value of simulations ...