What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras…

Monday April 14

Earthquake swarm mystery / It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week! / RIP John Archibald Wheeler

Tuesday April 15

Somebody clean this mess up / Elephants’ aquatic ancestor / Brace yourself for the big one California

Wednesday April 16

Riveting science from the Titanic / Sea level rise ‘threatens millions’ / Canada blocks American space takeover / Archaeologists have trouble counting / Bush waxes aspirational on climate

Thursday April 17

Inquiry over sewage spreading experiment / Darwin Archive evolves / Nasa beats German teen (at maths) / Why fished fish fluctuate / Today’s pretty space picture

Friday April 18

Brazil’s president defends biofuels / Rare turtle found in Vietnam / Singing for someone else’s supper

Other Nature blog posts you may have missed

Climate Feedback: North Atlantic Ocean may regain status as carbon sink

In the Field: Fermilab could rule out one type of Higgs

Nascent: What’s in your nature.com?

Ones that got away

The dumbest bird in the world, from the Guardian

‘Stalin’s space monkeys’, from the Independent

Lasers make lightning, from MSNBC