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Earth

Going bananas

The language bug

Electric paper

Fold here first

The poet and the pox

Table of contents

News

The mother of all El Ni帽os revealed

A mysterious force uncovered deep within the oceans explains why fish stocks go from boom to bust

Deep Junior will use brains not brawn to take on mighty Kasparov

Altered beet is a haven for wildlife

Soundbites

Red alert over rare species

Dispatches

Book ruling puts Danish institute in the spotlight

Countdown

Instant anger hits messaging patent

Houses are worse threat than people

Recipes for bioterror

Guiding the blind watchmaker

Can ‘space sheepdogs’ clear up Earth’s orbital junkyard?

Stroke patients make great strides in a different reality

Magnetic maps reveal the motion of the oceans

Ravines hint at gas avalanches on Mars

We hear that鈥�

Life’s lost and found

How radioactive fallout from the 1950s is fingering today’s illegal drug dealers

Mouse has the nous to tackle depression

Technology

Self-destructing DVDs

Technology

‘Throwaway’ digital camera

Technology

Dust to dust, jelly to jelly

Can ships swap mooring ropes for giant electromagnets?

Something in the air makes seeds sprout

Space

A planet so hot it rains iron

Space

Solar systems born in hazardous nursery

Space

Monster burps from milky way’s black hole

Old saris are the key to cleaner, safer water

Keep it shiny

Supercool star

Penguin harmonics

Pumped-up berries

Opinion

For whose eyes only

How do you preserve scientific freedom and combat terrorism?

Call off the witch-hunt

Computational origami

The word sar11

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Earth

Going bananas

The world's favourite fruit could disappear forever in 10 years' time. Is there anything we can do to prevent this slip-up?

The language bug

Electric paper

Fold here first

The poet and the pox

More

The Dinosaur Dealers by John Long

Moments in time

Nora Volkow

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And so to bed

No way out

Relatively easy

You shouldn’t have鈥�

Fly me to the dune

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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