All the buzz this week is about de-extinction – bringing extinct species back from the dead. Start with Carl Zimmer’s great story for National Geographic. And here’s more:

I offer a standing ovation to Megan Garber’s wonderful brief history of applause. And here’s Ben Zimmer with a brief history of the boo

If you missed it, here’s the Reddit Ask Me Anything that I did with Carl Zimmer, Virginia Hughes & Brian Switek.

10 yrs ago, SARS was vanquished. It could return. Fascinating piece by Helen Branswell.

A huge dock drifted from Oregon to Japan bringing invasive species. Ace piece on how we’re enabling rafting invaders

My piece for Nature News on microbes found deep in the Earth’s