Virus Fishing, Mantis Shrimp Boxing, and Carbon Cutting Bryozoans by SciFri published on 2015-09-25T21:42:04Z In this week's news roundup, Ed Yong, science writer for The Atlantic, talks about a new blood test that can fish out millions of human viruses at once, which, he writes, "should take a lot of the (educated) guesswork out of viral diagnosis." Plus, mantis shrimp are heavy hitters, and gauge the strength of their foes in a fairly straightforward way—by punching each other, repeatedly. Then, a group of Antarctic bryozoans—or “moss animals”—seem to be flourishing as climate change contributes to sea ice melt. A new study in Current Biology found that the filter feeders, which chow down on phytoplankton, for example, are helping sequester carbon— effectively removing some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Douglas Main, a staff writer for Newsweek, talks about the good and the bad of these carbon-cutting bryozoans having a field day in the warming waters. Genre science