What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras…
Tuesday May 06
Sea lion killings halt programme / Hunting asteroids
Wednesday May 07
Paralysing virus strikes China ahead of Olympics / Myanmar disaster / Psycho-maps / Cue the Hitchcock theme music / Epigenetics and suicide
Thursday May 08
Those clever flowers / When your commute just flies by… / Get your greendex
Friday May 09
Addictive protein folding game / That funny weather / Premature baby survival rates
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: Dry outlook for the Amazon rain forest
Nascent: Nature.com wins a Webby
Spoonful of Medicine: Don’t throw in the towel [AIDS vaccines]
Ones that got away
Urban falcons ‘contaminated with toxic chemicals’, from the LA Times
ESA says UK citizens can still get to space, from the BBC
Sour grapes in lemon tree row, from the Christian Science Monitor