What’s been on the Great Beyond this week…

Monday July 28

Armoured fish scales inspire body armour / America frets over ‘radioactive kitchens’ / No choppin’ Chopin, says Poland / ‘Climate change Dungeons and Dragons’ / Isle Royale: it’s wolf vs moose / California clamps down on ships’ sulphur / Fly me to suborbital space

Tuesday July 29

Animal drinking den found in Malaysia / Crush your employees, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations at their paycheques… / Video post: particle physics in Lego and rap / The record that wasn’t / Kipunji: the last of the honk-bark / The battle over EPA heats up … yet again

Wednesday July 30

Crunching PETA’s numbers redux / Remember Rember / It’s beat up the EPA day! / Wrangling over a half-ton gem / Not-dino of the day? / What bees have in common with serial killers / Uncle Ted’s excellent indictment

Thursday July 31

Pretty space pictures of the day / Titan’s ethane lake grabs headlines / Forecast for the Olympics: smoggy with a chance of clearing / Holy cracking ice sheets! Canada is breaking up! / High pressure fishing trip / UFO-obsessed hacker loses extradition battle / Rodent rehabilitation round-up / Hurricane keeps dead zone small

Friday August 1

Breaking news: water on Mars / First stars were nasty, brutish and short / No human cloning for Hwang / Skull-duggery! Speech shenanigans sank ship / Boating bugs breathe by building bubbles / Soy sauce