The Great Beyond
The Great Beyond
Archive of all The Great Beyond posts
- Crazy ants go wild in Texas!
- Concern after Brazil loses environment minister
- Shrimp’s super sight
- Einstein: ‘god is human weakness’
- Move over sugarcane - here comes sweet sorghum
- Are GM humans finally here?
- Elementary mistakes
- Scientific basis of a loud paint job
- Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope
- Grand Theft Dino
- McCain sets out climate stall
- Cannibalism drives locust swarms
- War on science? What war on science?
- Neil Young becomes a spider
- Weekly round up
- Premature baby survival rates
- That funny weather
- Addictive protein folding game
- Get your greendex
- When your commute just flies by…
- Those clever flowers
- Epigenetics and suicide
- Cue the Hitchcock theme music
- Psycho-maps
- Myanmar disaster
- Paralysing virus strikes China ahead of Olympics
- Hunting asteroids
- Sea lion killings halt programme
- Weekly round up
- South Africa resumes elephant culls
- Duck deaths highlight tar sands problems
- Audio special: babbling bird brains
- Keep your damn eco-cars, say US politicians
- ‘Miracle powder re-grows finger’
- Parasitic hermit plant found in Mexico
- ‘Decade break’ in global warming
- Taking oil companies to task
- RIP Albert Hofmann
- ‘Greenwashing’ complaints rise
- Asian vulture numbers dwindle
- UPDATE - Storm over global-warming sceptic hurricane man
- Sebastian’s super synthetic spider silk
- US states sued over wolf status
- Storm over global-warming sceptic hurricane man
- Polar bear not ‘endangered’, just ‘concerning’
- World’s top 100 brains
- Live super-size squid autopsy
- Weekly round up
- Sulphate science won’t stop global warming
- Scientists ‘under siege’ from political interference
- Protein shows chicken’s dino heritage
- ‘Gloomy’ emissions data shows methane rising
- Today’s space pics: ‘Galaxies gone wild’
- Scientists see into ‘blazars’ and sing about it...
- When is a science degree not a science degree?
- Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’
- Seeing mistakes before they happen
- Dear presidential candidates: you’re wrong
- More fallout from ‘ballistic’ Soyuz landing
- Return of the hockey stick
- Judge clears art prof in 'strange culture' case
- Drugs: a red rag for bullfighting officials
- Get us off this planet, says Hawking
- Earth day divides the planet
- Sea floor claims madness
- Space ship crash landing
- ‘World’s oldest tree’ found in Sweden
- Weekly round up
- Singing for someone else’s supper
- Rare turtle found in Vietnam
- Brazil's president defends biofuels
- Today’s pretty space picture
- Why fished fish fluctuate
- Nasa beats German teen (at maths)
- Darwin Archive evolves
- Inquiry over sewage spreading experiment
- Bush waxes aspirational on climate
- Archaeologists have trouble counting
- Canada blocks American space takeover
- Sea level rise 'threatens millions'
- Riveting science from the Titanic
- Brace yourself for the big one California
- Elephants’ aquatic ancestor
- Somebody clean this mess up
- RIP John Archibald Wheeler
- It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week!
- Earthquake swarm mystery
- Weekly round up
- Jellies ‘were first animal’
- Party like it's 1961
- UN: climate change behind ‘food crisis’
- Strewth mate! Climate change is ruining me bevies!
- Hurricane seer sees more storms, and more criticism
- Spain faces worst drought in years
- Pretty space pic: a Martian moon
- The wrath of Khan
- UN enlists Google in refugee work
- Creationist act passes another hurdle
- Amber spider-glass
- Human to human bird flu transmission
- ‘Vulcan’ shows carbon dioxide’s death-grip
- Heated row over cooling article
- US search engine permits ‘Abortion’ searches
- First success for US pro-research group
- Koalas threatened by ‘leather leaves’
- $50bn AIDS funding passes first hurdle
- Weekly round up
- Results of our quiz are in...
- Cleaning up shipping lanes
- Oz kicks off carbon storage
- Peabody Award for evolution trial film
- ‘Whacking Day’ for toads proposed
- Freaky flat-faced fish found
- Berkeley voyeurs spy on octopus lovin’
- UK hybrid embryo: in perspective
- Stonehenge dig a threat to journalists
- Beijing air ‘safe for an hour’ says Olympic honcho
- All hail Cedric, saviour of Tasmanian Devils
- Paranoia stalks London’s Underground
- A chemist, a physicist, and a biologist walk into a bar
- School’s plagiarism code plagiarized
- A peak at a squid-gy beak
- Groups call for tougher Antarctic ships, standards
- Today’s pretty space picture
- Weekly round up
- Oz papers go to war over Earth Hour
- Physics conspiracy: LHC could kill us all
- Colombian uranium nonsense
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- Saturn’s moon does comet impression
- Italy bullish in buffalo cheese row
- If an ice shelf breaks up and no one alerts the media, has anything really happened?
- Touchdown!
- Sex workout for pandas
- Miami prepares for police drones
- Patent row over LEDs
- Invertebrate wars! Get thee behind me echinoderms
- Sharks trigger perfect news-storm
- Climate change ‘threatens Oz wildlife’
- Weekly round up - March 20, 2008
- Water, water everywhere
- Satellite shoot-down update
- Tat's it
- Old blood, bad blood
- First organic molecule found on extrasolar planet
- UN warns of bird flu pandemic risk
- Tesla roadster: dawn of the electric age or misfire?
- RIP Arthur C. Clarke
- The incredible shrinking sea ice
- Yet more treasure from the bottom of the sea
- Ninja geckos (with video!)
- Where’s Humphry’s medal?
- Glacier melt speeding up
- Research at centre of fraud claims to be withdrawn
- Hot talk about our energy future
- Weekly round up
- Thank God it’s π Day
- Call the space repair man
- Too much sun makes tomatoes wonky
- The secret of sneaky alligators' roll over
- Short men are the jealous type
- £25m dome to save butterflies
- Physicist-priest wins $1.7 million prize
- Compromise on climate? Not this year, Democrats say
- Hacking the heart
- What’s the French for IUCN?
- A royal sex scandal in the ant world
- Road, rail and air links under climate cosh
- This is your brain on diesel
- Russia forces Korea to replace astronaut
- Are you ready for your close up?
- Genetic modification joins lust on mortal sins list
- The traveling biobank show
- Vaccination and the choice agenda
- Climate change ‘could lead to conflict with Russia’
- Pygmy hippo snapped in Liberia
- Weekly round up
- When seas get hot, fish get lost
- Who really solved 140-year old maths problem?
- Shooting claim in whaling fight
- Songs about science part V: singing scientists
- Get malaria, get paid
- Humans ‘hard-wired to spot snakes’
- Is there a doctor in the house?
- Climate sceptics and a multiple choice blog post
- Acid attack on Japanese whaling ship
- Antarctic cod put themselves ‘on ice’ for winter
- This is your brain on jazz
- Avalanche on Mars: Film at 11
- UK Physicists – check your job security here
- What do you call a six legged octopus?
- Picker produces paper publication proposals
- Diabetes and the shrinking frog
- Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08
- Shaking up the earthquake scale in California
- Weekly round up
- Mars Space Lab in trouble
- The ritualistic recipe for 'Maya blue'
- Baby bonanza to come in China
- Induced stem cells made safe?
- Remember those planets… however many there are
- UK astronomers keep telescope access
- Armed robot rampage
- Who could replace Dawkins?
- US officials clarify climate policy - or do they?
- Elephants: too many to live
- Website: too popular to live
- Butterfly fish… too stupid to live?
- Physicists peer deep into standard model; find nothing.
- Antidepressants 'no better than placebo'
- Solar mission freezes to death
- Splatellite: Confirming the Kill
- Dead in the water
- Biofuel flight hype
- Weekly round up
- If I were a rich man…
- Moving atoms is easy, measuring the moves less so
- Have sonar tests claimed another cetacean victim?
- Singing politicians fight for water
- Why some caterpillars look like ****
- Heavy work for green light
- Ultrasound scans ‘find the G spot’
- Giant pythons to put the squeeze on California?
- Watch the skies: lunar eclipse is coming
- ‘Monster’ giant beasts found in Antarctic waters
- Florida backs evolution in schools (kind of)
- Bee disease ‘threatens ice-cream’
- Russian pole stunt’s American origin
- Songs about science part III: geology
- I for one welcome our dancing robot overlords
- Is there life on Mars? No.
- $150,000 for that doggie in the window
- SOS: Save our Sharks
- Iran reaches orbit? Not just yet...
- Weekly round up
- Sagan on a stamp
- Peer review, ‘a mighty creator’ and an almighty row
- Leaving our mark on the world's oceans
- Valentine’s Day special / Gorillas in the midst (of a tryst)
- UK space strategy draws fire
- Tigers in trouble twice over
- Test your presidential attitude
- Even money on Vegas running dry in 2021
- ‘Terrorism risk underestimated’ at US nuke reactors
- Dino of the day: beach-bum-trumpeter-osaurus
- Maths wins at the Grammys
- Pretty astronomy pictures
- Dino of the day: mini-flying-cute-osaurus
- Happy Birthday Charles
- Climate pressure on ‘two-footed bio-indicators’
- Arrest made in space shuttle spy case
- Debating the science debate
- What’s in a (Mars robot’s) name?
- Success for wax powered robot sea glider
- Get well soon Hans
- Weekly round up
- Biofuels debates rages on
- Shuttle launches, press rejoices
- Dear Mr Garnier…
- Pictures spark new whale row
- Spine graft success story
- UK abandons goat diving research
- Confusion after diabetes study abandoned
- Psssst. Wanna buy a hypoallergenic cat?
- “This guy’s got a metre wide head”
- ‘Super Tuesday’ and science
- Joshua Lederberg dies
- Hot heads and cold noses
- Polar bear decision looms
- All hail the super train
- Internet cable cuts continue
- Climate change tipping points outlined
- Send my love to the aliens
- Mice catch a cold
- Weekly round up
- Seinfeld Science: Don’t Double Dip
- Scientists catch new elephant shrew, then kill it
- Roy Orbison joins the insect world
- ISS gets closer to full power
- Pope steps up rhetoric on science
- ‘White Nose Syndrome’ threatens America’s bats
- Mercury flyby brings data “goldmine”
- Watching football can kill you
- Galapagos sea lions slaughtered
- Hummingbirds’ musical tail
- Periodic Table Printmaking Project
- US agency ‘hid hurricane health hazard’
- A plague on the weak
- State of the science
- Pope takes another pop at science
- The ego has landed
- In this day and age...
- Can shining lights on your head cure dementia?
- ‘Ion shield’ developed for Mars missions
- Asteroid not going to hit Earth
- ‘A radical violation of the truth’
- Weekly round up
- Songs of science part II
- Army sent in to save rainforest
- No stardust for comet mission
- Only drunk the day before...
- Lauded China skull find “far from the greatest”
- Yellowstone Park launches Geyser-TV
- Private space plane designs unveiled
- Mastodon bonanza for creationist
- Hurricanes gone wild
- Ares “delay” puts NASA on the back foot
- No. Bigfoot does not live on Mars
- Was Arctic report censored?
- Arctic airship crashes
- Watching Die Hard cuts street crime
- Climate change trade war
- I for one welcome our cockroach overlords!
- Sign language science
- Kill sea lions to save salmon?
- Girl dies during stem cell trial
- World’s weirdest amphibians
- Weekly round up
- Black sheep really are bad
- Save the gharial!
- Pope pulls out
- Congress criticizes delay of polar bear decision
- Parasite turns ants into tasty looking berries
- Starfish eat heart out of ‘coral triangle’
- Where has the Yangtze gone?
- NASA’s amazing flying space observatory
- Messenger un-masks mysterious Mercury
- Your senator's view on science
- All hail the super carrot!
- Sesame Street Science
- Whaling fight turns ugly
- ‘Priceless’ illegal fossils returned to China
- Dinosaur of the Day: Pregnant-teenager-o-saurus
- Solar cycle update – Ulysses visits pole
- Zoo buys snake for $5,000 a metre
- Inaugural Antarctic passenger flight
- Giant cloud of gas will clobber Milky Way
- Songs about science
- Dinosaurs of the Day – Baryonix, Bristol, more
- Weekly round up
- A friend’s enemy may be a friend
- Mars braces for impacts
- Best look yet at invisible dark matter
- What colour were dinosaurs?
- Ice festival wilts in global warming heat
- Harsh words over fellow feeling
- Drinking vodka in zero gravity
- Rogue black holes roam the Milky Way
- Reef deaths are our fault
- Dengue is coming to America
- How to hijack a 787
- Honesty in homeopathy
- Lethal injection under scrutiny
- Sunspot heralds end of the world!
- Creationist wants $60,000 for rare mastodon
- Surprising recovery in mice after spinal-injury
- It’s raining iguanas in Florida
- Controversy over kangaroo killing code
- ‘Insects finished off the dinosaurs’
- Weekly round up
- Going power mad...
- NASA to fly Google’s plane into meteor shower
- Saturn’s strange structures
- New salamanders discovered in Costa Rica
- Row over Taiwan’s genetic makeup
- Arctic amplification
- Monkeys pay for sex
- IPCC co-founder dies at 82
- I changed my mind...
- Lack of sleep linked to diabetes
- World’s oldest orang dies
- Mars is going down!
- Scientists in the Honours List
- Floods and mudslides in Java
- Zoo news: escaped tiger
- Martians watch out
- Doctors: med students, but older...
- Japan abandons humpback hunt
- ‘Save the penguins’, with a twist
- Stem cells go to the movies
- MIT unveils bicycle powered supercomputer
- Creationism masters nears approval
- Stop working so hard!
- ‘We’ll save cod by catching more,’ says Europe
- Bio-boat aims at world record
- Am I seeing double, or have they sequenced the wine genome again?
- SoS: Save our Shuttle
- Don’t give up on human stem cells
- ‘Death star’ is killing ETs
- ‘An isopod is cute in the eyes of an isopod’
- Anorexia ‘can’t be caught from photos’
- After a year in the ice, science ship breaks free
- Weekly round up
- Coral reefs are on the ropes
- Flowering bamboo brings out the rats
- Someone’s got it in for the ISS
- Saturn’s rings are older than we thought
- Arctic ice – never say die
- How hot was 2007?
- Magnetic ropes power 40,000kmh aurora storm
- Dino of the day – Student-o-saurs
- ‘Giant spider eats space shuttle’
- Is evolution speeding up?
- Wheel of Spirit hints at life on Mars
- Penguins and global warming
- Science tattoo collection reaches 100
- James Watson ‘16% black’ claim
- Shuttle and Euro lab grounded
- Nuclear lab hacking linked to China
- Stripping for science
- Weekly round up
- $300m for Moore’s massive telescope
- First X-Prize entrant seeks Moon gravy
- Kangaroos’ great, great, great, great grandfather
- BP back in the tar sands business
- Dolphins love a weedy male
- Moon rock sheds a little light
- Oh no, Knut again!
- Life between the (mica) sheets
- Elephant news triple bill
- FDA’s lack of science ‘puts lives at risk’
- Climate: hoaxes and divorced Canadian drunks
- ‘Nazi’ rocket man’s PhD for sale
- Shuttle replacement problems surface
- Christmas gift round up
- Dinosaur of the day – mummified-o-saurus
- Robot boxing
- Saving the world from paradise
- Weekly round up
- Don’t mess with Texas education
- Female antelope won’t take no for an answer
- A Christmas card from Hubble
- To boldly go ... to the voting booth
- Are 25% of all US bird species at risk?
- Turkey may roast Dawkins’ atheism book
- Flying foxes can’t handle the heat
- Climate change ‘will undermine poverty progress’
- NASA’s new map of the big white
- Fossils will/may/won’t delay Australian water plant
- Gorillas use “weapons”
- Give us $3 billion, say marine researchers
- Indonesia: WHO can whistle for bird flu samples
- Antarctic ship sinking fears
- Elephants hate hunters, don’t mind farmers
- Dinosaur of the day: Buffalo-head-smash-o-saurs
- Weekly round up
- Mirrors help phantom limb pain
- The trillion tonne mudslide (almost)
- Attack of the killer jellyfish!
- The new urban scourge: turkeys
- A vague sort of climate pact for Asia
- Star with a carbon atmosphere
- Termite guts spilled
- The presidential space race
- Conflict-of-interest claims in California
- This is your brain on a migraine
- Son of a what?
- It's all about me
- Cloning pioneer abandons human embryo work
- Noah’s flood brought farming to Europe
- Cyclone and early warning in Bangladesh
- Weekly round up
- Why shouldn’t we eat whales?
- Climate change round up
- Dinosaur of the Day: a ‘Flintstones lawnmower’
- Far East kicks US in education fight
- Why Zack is a failure and Andy succeeds
- New great ape fossil
- No space walks after smoky suit
- Japan, India, China: We like the Moon too
- Japan’s singing road
- Getting hydrogen from microbes
- Invasive fish are Emperor’s fault
- ‘Chocolate beer’ is older than we thought
- UN: don’t clone people
- An inquisition for Galileo
- Arizona biologist dies of plague
- Weekly round up
- INTERVIEW: author of spoof paper speaks
- Yellowstone is rising
- Fake climate change paper
- California fires from the ground
- Birth control pills seem harder to swallow
- Get off my land!
- VIDEO: Fly me round the Moon
- New planet: same as the old planet?
- Memory of a Nobel-winner's childhood
- When pandemic flu hits, are you in luck?
- Robot takes over nursery
- It's a pig, Jim...
- Oil and water don't mix at the Smithsonian
- Bill not dead in the water
- Space station solar panels: one fixed, one to go
- Robot car wins urban race
- Weekly round up
- Appetite for fish means reef destruction
- Robot race shifts gear
- The Lance Armstrong Mighty Mouse
- Washoe the chimp dies
- New planets’ hidden mystery
- Leslie Orgel
- Spooky science for Halloween
- Tiger tales triple bill
- More space station woes
- FEMA fake press conference scandal
- 52m year old spider X-ray
- Organic food ‘better for you’
- Power problems for space station
- A clam named Ming
- Arthur Kornberg
- Weekly round up
- “Lesbian nematodes”
- Primates in trouble, including us
- 'I have been much blessed' - Watson retires
- Kyoto’s failings
- Wildlife photographer of the year
- Saturn’s moonlet belt
- Global warming = mass extinctions
- California fires from space
- Vibrating mice get thinner
- Save the dinosaur!
- ‘Evidence ignored’ in badger cull row
- California sues for cleaner air
- Cod ‘recovery’ claims
- Solar powered race sets off
- All the leaves are brown...
- Cracks in Shuttle, and NASA unity
- Inside the mind of 'Honest Jim' Watson
- Weekly round up
- Sea change brings coast guard to Arctic
- Watson apologises; suspended from Cold Spring Harbor
- X-ray sat laid to rest
- An early taste for seafood
- Ice surveyors will walk to pole
- James Watson’s race row
- A feast of fossil footprints
- Dinosaur of the day
- Gossip beats facts any day
- Chimps exposed as liars
- South China Tiger spotted
- Florida stops burying tortoises alive (soon)
- Fear gets seen faster
- New crew aboard ISS
- Weekly round up
- Al Gore and IPCC share peace prize
- ‘Evolutionary scandal’ of sexless bug solved
- Nature’s history online
- New Horizons visits Jupiter
- Allen array online
- Nine slaps on the wrist for Al Gore - UPDATED
- T. Rex reigned in Hell Valley
- Aphids’ dangerous liaison
- Chemistry Nobel announced
- The only way to fly
- Making elephants bee-hive
- Dinosaur of the day
- Physics Nobel announced
- Ig Nobels and science journalism
- Artificial life, again
- International Cephalopod Awareness Day
- ‘Space currency’ nonsense
- Medicine Nobel announced
- Weekly round up
- Cycads’ complicated love life
- Europe and creationism - UPDATE
- California geologists rock the party
- ‘Saint Pete’ to step down
- Tasmanian Devils face extinction
- A duck-billed plant pulveriser
- New space war threatened
- The new face of Nature News
- Pretty pictures from Hubble
- Lab lapses spark safety fears
- Self tuning guitar hits bum note
- Arctic ice on the rocks
- Centre fined over macaque death
- CSI Llullaillaco’s grisly discovery
- Israel boycott ‘would be illegal’
- Bush’s climate change ‘charade’
- Next stop: the ocean
- Weekly round up
- Creationist film row
- Accordion news: smoking ban benefits bands
- Bizarre radio burst baffles astronomers
- Oxygen is older than we thought
- China dam threatens ‘catastrophe’
- Quantum computing advances
- Europe debates creationism
- No place like home for crocs
- New species found in Vietnam
- Nasa prepares for Dawn
- Acupuncture 'better than medicine'
- Nutrients drive frog deformities
- Public view of global warming pt 2
- New nuclear plants proposed
- Rapid bird flu test
- Three tales from NASA
- HIV vaccine setback
- Weekly round up
- Velociraptors: less scary than thought
- Drought makes rainforest greener
- Pimp my moon buggy
- Adieu Moore’s Law?
- Worshiping in space
- Bluefin tuna fishing ‘ban’
- A barcode for every animal
- Farewell to the stethoscope
- Mystery illness follows meteor
- NASA needs YOU
- Californian car climate change court case
- Yale returns ‘borrowed’ artefacts
- Steel shield for Chernobyl
- California's new stem cell supremo
- Who’d be a whale?
- Northwest passage in ice opens
- Was dark matter hot or cold?
- Weekly round up
- Foot and Mouth breaks out again
- X Prize: ‘We like the moon’
- Row over ‘Rama’s Bridge’
- Nowak trial postponed
- Tsunami threats trouble shaken Indonesia
- X-rays to illuminate ancient documents
- World's most polluted places
- Fruity crime pays for chimps
- ‘Hippocratic oath for scientists’
- Pet problems over identity chips
- Rover enters Mars crater
- Cliché true, say psychologists
- Red tape enrages fertility scientist
- Commercial space flight falters
- Polar bears disappear
- Giving genes a human face - UPDATED
- Solar powered flight at night
- Weekly round up