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By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine As plumes of pollution rise over the booming industrial towns of Asia, satellite data could help to alert people in other regions to the approach of drifting smog.

By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine When police officers, scientists and doctors launched an investigation into the scourge of counterfeit medicines in South East Asia, they were shocked to find that nearly half of the anti-malarials that they seized were fakes.

By Katherine Bourzac of Nature magazine Bits of data travelling the internet have a tough commute -- they bounce back and forth between optical signal lines for efficient transmission and electrical signal lines for processing. [More]

By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine In the Congo Basin, Bayaka pygmies patrol their forests with handheld tracking devices. [More]

By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine Carnivorous plants catch their prey in pools, glue and snap traps. [More]

This is an exciting day for the #SciAmBlogs network – launch of the brand new blog by Katherine Harmon! She is a reporter and associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine, neuroscience and general life sciences for the website and you are probably familiar with her articles and blog posts (on the Observations blog). You can also follow her on Twitter at @katherineharmon . Katherine’s new blog is Octopus Chronicles , where she will write about this most intelligent and most charismatic of all invertebrates – the science, the history, the art, the works… This blog will be her “writing laboratory” as she works on her new book about these fascinating animals.