What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras…
Monday December 03
Saving the world from paradise / Robot boxing / Dinosaur of the day – mummified-o-saurus / Christmas gift round up
Tuesday December 04
Shuttle replacement problems surface / ‘Nazi’ rocket man’s PhD for sale / Climate: hoaxes and divorced Canadian drunks / FDA’s lack of science ‘puts lives at risk’
Wednesday December 05
Elephant news triple bill / Life between the (mica) sheets
Thursday December 06
Oh no, Knut again! / Moon rock sheds a little light / Dolphins love a weedy male / BP back in the tar sands business
Friday December 07
Kangaroos’ great, great, great, great grandfather / First X-Prize entrant seeks Moon gravy / $300m for Moore’s massive telescope
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: Nature is in Bali with UN conference
Action Potential: press reporting of conflicts of interest
In the Field: Nature goes to the American Geophysical Union next week
Ones that got away
Why palaeontologist Ted Daeschler needs an electric demolition hammer, from The Philadelphia Inquirer
UK anglers carp about remote control fishing, in the Times
NASA sings the Twelve Days of Christmas? At SpaceRef.com