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To sleep, perchance to dream

Written in the stars

Shifting Sands

The killer bean of Calabar

Table of contents

News

Safety fears over unmanned planes

Pilotless aircraft may soon fly alongside your holiday jet

Counselling can add to the trauma

‘And here’s your electricity forecast鈥�’

If you can’t kick the habit, filter it

Do computer systems really help spot cancers?

Soundbites

Doctors don’t fall for the hard sell

Fungus in your tea, sir?

Space

Your chance to win free flights

Going, going鈥ut has it really gone?

Dispatches

Slipperiest particle gets away again

Selfish gene revisited

Entangled photons dance across the blue Danube

Earth

Giant lightning jets discovered

We hear that鈥�

How sensitivity to pain is really all in the mind

Safer peanuts are on the menu鈥ut how will they taste?

You’ll never see it coming鈥�

Farming pioneered in ancient New Guinea

A balm to soothe troubled minds

Technology

Defacing digital downloads

Technology

Send bad breath into the void

Technology

Lilo absorbs bomb blasts

‘Mutator protein’ helps our bodies fight viruses

Rewrite the textbooks

Submarine coating keeps muscles cool

Dammed mud

The high drama of a 3D South America

A breath of tellurium

Carbon balls from space

The shy brain

Opinion

Move over Sigmund

As a new generation takes over, sleep science is ripe for revolution

Blue lizards go out on the pull

How not to beat spam

Past master

The word the core

Humans

Washington diary

Features

To sleep, perchance to dream

Written in the stars

Shifting Sands

The killer bean of Calabar

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Sweet William

The X in Sex: How the X chromosome controls our lives by David Bainbridge

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester

Brand new Noah

Jenny Diski

Frank James

Filling the void

The Bostonian

Close examination

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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