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Health

The resistible rise of skin cancer

The laboratory rat’s guide to Europe: The single European market could be good news for laboratory animals. It might reduce the number used in toxicity tests – if only bureaucrats could agree

Animal experiments the American way: 杏吧原创s in the US have more leeway than colleagues abroad when it comes to deciding what animal experiments can be performed

No Southern comfort at Rio?: Poor nations are unfairly blamed for the world’s environmental ills and the Earth Summit will do little to alter this perception, argue two leading greens from the developing world

Chips off the young blocks: For an electronics invention to be commercially viable it needs more than a bright idea – as a competition for young engineers recently showed

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News

Nuclear bonfire for chemical weapons

Fear for lives of Iranian journalists

Draft treaty fails to put limits on emissions . . .

. . . as Europe weakens carbon tax

Probably the oldest lager in the world . . .

Australia to crack down on fossil smugglers

Soils spoilt by farming and industry

Charity may join gene-mapping venture

Stepping out across the innovation gap

Britain signs deal to protect dolphins

Rio forest will be gone in 30 years

Wobbly start for space salvage crew

Writs fly in battle to save flock of crows

Physics adds muscle to British industry

Crystal composition steals the show

Future format

Rocket row

Sleep of death

Coastal defence

Cholera campaign

Space probe wakes

Breast still best

Socialising in cyberspace: San Francisco is home to a unique experiment aimed at creating a computerised community. Social rules are new and fluid and people are redefining what passes for acceptable behaviour

Science: Ewe-turn for maternal behaviour

Science: Gene gives clue to how cancers grow

Science: Scorpions in a cold climate

Science: Black hole caught swallowing a star

Science: Pacific warming

Science: Cancer drugs target cells that other treatments miss

Science: Superfluid helium could make neutrino detector

Science: Flatfish is a dab hand at monitoring pollution

Science: Does etching lend light to silicon?

Technology

Technology: News travels fast after Californian quakes

Technology

Technology: TV fails to stump up for hidden cameras

Technology

Technology: Mathematical piano sounds a logical notes

Technology

Technology: Waxy weeks sup on oil slicks

Technology

Technology: Japan goes flat out for giant TV screen

Technology

Technology: Who’s afraid of the big, bad boom?

Technology

Technology: Hot tips for Braille readers

Opinion

Keating’s commitment to science

Comment: Physical fears

Comment: Cold Comfort

Features

Health

The resistible rise of skin cancer

Cancer experts all over the world are bracing themselves to deal with the escalating problem of a disease born largely of the desire to turn white skin brown

The laboratory rat’s guide to Europe: The single European market could be good news for laboratory animals. It might reduce the number used in toxicity tests – if only bureaucrats could agree

Animal experiments the American way: 杏吧原创s in the US have more leeway than colleagues abroad when it comes to deciding what animal experiments can be performed

No Southern comfort at Rio?: Poor nations are unfairly blamed for the world’s environmental ills and the Earth Summit will do little to alter this perception, argue two leading greens from the developing world

Chips off the young blocks: For an electronics invention to be commercially viable it needs more than a bright idea – as a competition for young engineers recently showed

More

Review: Art in the sky with frescoes

Review: Questions and the answer for chronologists

Review: The human element of chemistry

Review: The dignity of a woman’s place in the laboratory

Review: Sisterhood and flamboyance in evolution

Review: A showing of dinosaurs

Forum: Science finds its champion – William Bown talks to Britain’s first Minister for Science

Forum: Chalk, talk or peers? – Chris Riley discovers an old way to overcome teacher shortages

Forum: A case of adverbial disjunctivitis? – Ian Gordon warns you to use adverbs with caution

Thistle Diary: Hot potatoes and quiet roads – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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