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

Monday April 21

‘World’s oldest tree’ found in Sweden / Space ship crash landing / Sea floor claims madness

Tuesday April 22

Earth day divides the planet / Get us off this planet, says Hawking / Drugs: a red rag for bullfighting officials / Judge clears art prof in ‘strange culture’ case / Return of the hockey stick

Wednesday April 23

More fallout from ‘ballistic’ Soyuz landing / Dear presidential candidates: you’re wrong / Seeing mistakes before they happen / Songs about science part VI: ‘Don’t go messing with our telescope’

Thursday April 24

When is a science degree not a science degree? / Scientists see into ‘blazars’ and sing about it… / Today’s space pics: ‘Galaxies gone wild’ / ‘Gloomy’ emissions data shows methane rising

Friday April 25

Protein shows chicken’s dino heritage / Scientists ‘under siege’ from political interference / Sulphate science won’t stop global warming

Other Nature blog posts you may have missed

Climate Feedback: Losing Greenland

Spoonful of Medicine: Stress as a therapy? and Tangotherapy

Peer-to-Peer: What the job of an editor is all about

Nautilus: The week on Nature Network

Ones that got away

How cool are coccolithophores? From the Independent

Pets could kill you! From the Times

In training: world’s first cloned sniffer dogs. From the BBC