Weekly round up - May 23, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday May 19
Name an iceberg / Brittlestar Spectacular found under the sea / Monday video: Chemistry party / Towards a transgenic model of Huntington’s
Tuesday May 20
NASA to pull plug on Gravity Probe B / ‘At least 12% of US biology teachers are creationist’ / Super-evolved mega-mice threaten island birds
Wednesday May 21
Rodent of unusual size ‘not quite so unusual’ / Space ’roo albedo test / Aircraft engineer indicted / Researchers hit back a mobile phone research reporting / Fact, fiction, and academia / British fertility debate ‘a vote for science over religion’?
Thursday May 22
Explosions on the Moon / Crazy robots go wild in California / Dinosaur round up: Yemen, Colorado, Alaska
Friday May 23
‘A perfect little frogamander’ / Acidic oceans arrive early / NOAA hurricane predictions / Nature blogs Phoenix landing
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: Isotopes and Snowball Earth
Peer-to-Peer: a story that exemplifies the weaknesses of the scientific process
Nautilus: A second take on 'ghost' authorship
Ones that got away
What is a dead gecko doing inside an egg? From the Daily Telegraph.
Keep that thing away from me! Giant blue earthworms on Zooillogiz.
Could killer lake become a power source? From the LA Times.