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

Monday July 07

Climate change cartoon competition / Procedural deficiencies, eh? / Octopus vs Rubik’s cube / Garnaut mania takes over Australia / ‘Older men are less fertile’ / Stiglitz and Sulston: Who Owns Science? / On Nature News: quakes and bans

Tuesday July 08

Nature is at the G8 / US reefs under threat / On Nature News: the G8 and physics funding / Epilepsy drugs get a second look / Funder of science-religion interface dies

Wednesday July 09

America debates drug treatment of ‘kid-lesterol’ / GM goes solar powered / Eight new official wonders of the natural world / The Interactive Political Interference Story / On Nature News: bird flu, fossil fish, and the G8

Thursday July 10

The strange case of the young wolf / Giant airship’s eco-credentials / The Supreme Court’s epidemiology experiment / Water found on Moon / On Nature News: sunlight and science vs the media

Friday July 11

Hey! Pharma! Leave those kids alone… / No reef relief / It’s only supposed to blow the bloody Soyuz off / A new star every two hours…

Other Nature blog posts you may have missed

Climate Feedback: Biodiversity vs. carbon sinks – an Oregon tale

Nautilus: Training for human studies may become mandatory

Ones that got away

Can fridge-sats keep UK in the space race? From the Guardian.

Send the police! I can see the Moon! From the Daily Telegraph

Boosting population is a vague science, says the Moscow Times.