What’s been on The Great Beyond this week, plus a few extras …
Monday 9 June
Leaving Earth … 40 years ago / Nervosa rex / Biomass boosting / Beep beep, 500 trillion times a second
Tuesday 10 June
Trade in dead tigers alive and well / Nobel prize leads to new reward: a long-lost relative / Acid Jacuzzi roundup
Wednesday 11 June
Thursday 12 June
Name that tune in three elements / Diary from an Arctic icebreaker / Alas, poor Pluto
Friday 13 June
2,000-year-old seed makes good / Sniffing out a good story / “Nature unhinged” / Chillin’ out at the LHC
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
In the Field: Phoenix lander starts to ‘shake and bake’ Martian dirt
The Sceptical Chymist: Should scientists have a life outside the lab?
Ones that got away
Scientists blame drilling for Indonesia’s mud volcano, from the AP
Leatherback turtles hit Texas’ Padre Island, from the Austin American-Statesman
Videos of the week: Fire, ovulation, and a beluga birth