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The trouble with implants: For thirty years plastic surgeons said silicone implants were safe. Now women are rushing to have them removed as researchers explore the links with disease

Greenprint for rescuing the Rhine: Orthodox methods for cleaning up the Rhine have been only partially successful. Now the nations responsible are starting to back the ecologists’ vision of a river fit for salmon

Environment

Real Monkeys don’t drink water: A remarkable troop of southern African baboons has learnt how to survive in a desert unfit for primate life. But their days could be numbered

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News

The onco-mouse that didn’t roar

Did ancient mariners set sail from the Indus valley?

Search for genes that make man’s best friend

Computer learns to handle fusion reactor

Electronics speeds up the pace of war

Clinton backs big science

Race against clock to repair Hubble

Let the youngsters have their turn

‘Conflict of interest’ on sell-off

Tight deadline for council carve-up

Antarctic bases put on ice

Shetland oil spill did little harm

Europe to subsidise widescreen TV

Alaska revives big bad plan to kill wolves

Timber: the beam in Europe’s eye

Flexible future for France

Unhappy birthday for Paris museum

Why coffee addicts need their fix

Backward Britain

Near miss

Condor killed

Tuning in to music’s past

Platypus polemic

Oyster alert

Plutonium payout

Free to work

Carbon dioxide’s taxing questions: Can Britain and the other industrial nations meet the deadline agreed a year ago for stabilising emissions of carbon dioxide? And do they need to do more?

Science: Galactic cannibalism has made Milky Way big and fat

Science: Radio blast reveals edge of Sun’s domain

Science: The cryptographer who took a crack at ‘junk’ DNA

Science: An extra bit ensures perfect copies

Science: Mathematicians learn how to read the ant-trails

Science: Were there motorbikes in the Cambrian period?

Technology

Technology: Correction

Technology

Technology: Can Darth Vader clean up LA?

Technology

Technology: Phone company calls time on paper directories

Technology

Technology: Top marks for timetables in the generation game

Technology

Technology: Supercar takes high road to the future

Technology

Patents: Not today, thank you

Technology

Patents: Autograph hunters

Technology

Patents: Patent agents look for stability

Technology

Patents: Programmed to pay

Technology

Patents: Bearing up

Technology

Patents: Patents Information

Opinion

Talking your way into medicine

Comment: Now the party’s over

Comment: Europe’s TV hell

Thistle Diary: Voices abroad and out of turn – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

The trouble with implants: For thirty years plastic surgeons said silicone implants were safe. Now women are rushing to have them removed as researchers explore the links with disease

Greenprint for rescuing the Rhine: Orthodox methods for cleaning up the Rhine have been only partially successful. Now the nations responsible are starting to back the ecologists’ vision of a river fit for salmon

Environment

Real Monkeys don’t drink water: A remarkable troop of southern African baboons has learnt how to survive in a desert unfit for primate life. But their days could be numbered

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Earth

Review: Revisionists welcome, ranters not

Review: Extending moral rights to distant cousins

Review: Africa’s fearsome future

Review: Genetics illuminated for the young

Review: A matter of life and death

Review: Geologists reach for the Moon

Review: The dark side of the clock

Review: How to write right

Forum: Who says they can forecast the weather? – Neil Duncan thinks forecasting could be more accurately conceived

Forum: Can do, therefore must do – 杏吧原创s and surgeons need training in ethics and sociology, says Donald Gould

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