Weekly round up - December 14, 2007
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday December 10
Stripping for science / Nuclear lab hacking linked to China / Shuttle and Euro lab grounded / James Watson ‘16% black’ claim
Tuesday December 11
Science tattoo collection reaches 100 / Penguins and global warming / Wheel of Spirit hints at life on Mars / Is evolution speeding up?
Wednesday December 12
‘Giant spider eats space shuttle’ / Dino of the day – Student-o-saurs / Magnetic ropes power 40,000kmh aurora storm
Thursday December 13
How hot was 2007? / Arctic ice – never say die / Saturn’s rings are older than we thought
Friday December 14
Someone’s got it in for the ISS / Flowering bamboo brings out the rats / Coral reefs are on the ropes
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
In the Field – seismologists detect ‘footquakes from celebrating football fans
The Sceptical Chymist – chemistry and cooking
Spoonful of Medicine – being inclusive for the sake of political correctness
Ones that got away
Fin whale feeding time, from the NY Times
The strange case of an engineering professor’s Wikipedia ban, from the Guardian
Poachers have decimated the European eel population, from The Times
