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The hunt for Planet X

Breathing space

The big O

Bloodlust

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Table of contents

News

Pollution is plunging us into darkness

Loss of sunlight across vast areas of the globe is forcing down temperatures and threatening water supplies

For your very good health, here’s a bottle of the latest Chardonnay

Soundbites

Pollution triggers genetic defects

School league tables set up deceptive hierarchy

We hear that鈥�

Dispatches

Space

Misprinted citations finger scientists who fail to do their homework

Fur flies over possum trapping

Space station’s lifeboat rescues prospects for research

Water, water everywhere but many countries don’t make the most of it

Safety suffers in a slump

Salvage hope for leaking oil

Did lava cover traces of asteroid impacts?

Holes in ice threaten to let greenhouse gas escape from the ocean’s depths

How to run on thin air

Don’t count on plants to save the world from global warming

Technology

Hell’s brake lights

Gene chip singles out deadliest tumours

Technology

Runway runaways

Technology

Snot fair, can’t hear鈥�

We hear that鈥�

Xerox that circuit for me, would you鈥�

Sound of silence saves whales

Army ants march to work with military efficiency

Early Americans used first writing to promise loyalty

Theories flow for rivers on Mars

Software gambler takes on the tipsters

Bacteria, viruses鈥t’s all the same to D6R

Greed by degrees

Smells like 7 o’clock

A greener bubble

Malaria fails to get a grip on Melanesians

Autoimmune bulimia?

Flights of fancy

Opinion

Chance of a lifetime

If we don't go now, Pluto will remain a mystery for generations

To grow, or not to grow

It’s a wonderful life, according to David Attenborough

The word geoid

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The hunt for Planet X

There are tantalising hints of another Earth out on the edge of the Solar System. Are hundreds more just waiting to be found, ask Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest

Breathing space

The big O

Bloodlust

Inactive service

More

Lion Tamarins: Biology and conservation by Devra Kleiman and Anthony Rylands

The Solar Economy by Hermann Scheer

Shipwrecked

Novels and nirvana

Bestsellers – Oxford

Tragedy train

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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