Ed Yong of science blog "Not Exactly Rocket Science" has, like bacterium by an archaeon, been swallowed up by National Geographic. About the new home base, he writes: "This is ostensibly a news site. It covers what I like to call the "wow beat"—the wonderful bits of science that we're learning about every day, which make you raise an eyebrow and go, Ooooo." Here's the feed.