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Space

Ethane lakes in a red haze: Titan’s uncanny moonscape

Environment

Vital giants: Why living seas need whales

Lab brats: Eight great scoundrels of science

Earth

Battle of the Chaco: Who will win the wilderness?

Table of contents

News

Why global temperatures held steady for 10 years

We can account for the apparent halt in global warming since 1998, say climatologists, and it isn't going to last

Environment

Environment plays a big part in autism

Earth

Volcanic eruption ‘overdue’ in Australia

Earth

Vast reserves of vital rare earths found in ocean bed

Earth

Germany will use fossil fuels to plug nuclear gap

Technology

South Korea’s pupils to go paperless by 2015

60 Seconds

Mind

Danish firm stops supplying US death penalty drug

Space

Farewell, shuttle: Now the space race takes off again

Earth

Thousands of gas leaks under Boston and San Francisco

Studies link HIV to early dementia

Compulsory medication muddies gunman trial issue

Earth

La Ni帽a behind worst African drought in 60 years

Physics

Distant light hints at size of space-time grains

Physics

Tevatron particles shed light on antimatter mystery

Health

Natural antioxidants could scupper tumour’s detox

Environment

1.5 million sexless years no good for stick insects

Earth

Aircraft punch 50-kilometre-wide holes in clouds

Physics

Rubik’s cubes of any size can now be solved

Health

Brain cells made from skin could treat Parkinson’s

Miniature ‘knot lab’ could help untangle DNA mystery

Environment

Beetles beat us to the screw and nut

Humans

Sleeping babies can hear you’re upset

Technology

Mischief and fraud in the crowdsourced workforce

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Online clothes shopping gets the human touch

Earth

Wave-power ships could bring cheaper clean electricity

Opinion

The next space race

A new chapter of exploration opens with the final shuttle mission

Environment

The importance of rebranding ecosystems

In praise of the mavericks

Technology

Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker

Life

Psychologist: Why we screw up when the heat is on

Aperture

Free-diving Indian Ocean nomads under threat

Marine conservationists are trying restore fisheries and preserve coral reefs for the Bajo people, who live out their lives almost entirely at sea

Features

Space

Ethane lakes in a red haze: Titan’s uncanny moonscape

Skies like a bad day in LA, red-and-black rainbows, Mississippi-style river channels 鈥� Saturn's largest moon is our prototype weird-world exoplanet

Environment

Vital giants: Why living seas need whales

Lab brats: Eight great scoundrels of science

Earth

Battle of the Chaco: Who will win the wilderness?

Culture

Perils of baby sex preference

In her book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl argues that when a culture prizes baby boys over girls, the result is a dangerously lopsided world

Luck in Google’s early days

Stealing moon rocks from NASA

Life in the tangled Everglades

From war to hyperreal art

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Enigma Number 1654

Regulars

Feedback: Rhubarb, invisible rhubarb

Wireless network blocked by rhubarb, quantum train stations, GPS for the pernickety, a memory card is a memory card is a memory card, and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Bug wash

Colour code

Ring of doom

The wobblies

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