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Your money or your life

Life

Virtuous nature

Green foundations

Wanted: bloodsuckers

Dr Doom-monger I presume

Table of contents

News

The scandal of IVF league tables

To boost their rankings, clinics are implanting too many embryos, putting the lives of mothers and babies at risk

African fisheries on brink of collapse

Technology

Dispatches

Earliest ancestor unearthed

Pinatubo dust is still a killer

Kids’ hats fail the UV test

Horse power beats diesel

Soundbites

Is it time to give airliners the freedom of the skies?

How planes avoid each other

Can a healing light save pilots’ sight?

Mouse sperm jump aboard the love train

If the Universe is spinning, here’s how to feel it

Do nose cells know how to bridge the spinal gap?

We hear that鈥�

Technology

Improve your presentation

Technology

There’s a beast in your TV

Technology

Birthday with a bang

Fewer genes, better health

First sighting of the event horizon

‘Dumb’ hominids made it out of Africa

Icy puzzle comes to a watery end

Throw the big’uns back in the sea

Blast that landmine

A new game for Kevin Bacon to play

Fear and fever

High-flying memories

Killer kit

These mountains are on the march

Home and dry

Sound barrier

Opinion

The people vs patents

The drugs industry is taking us where nobody sensible wants to go

A hard habit to break

Feeling our way…

E-science

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Your money or your life

One company is trying to enforce a monopoly on testing for breast cancer genes. With other genes being bought up at an alarming rate, how long before all healthcare is in the hands of a few big companies and their lawyers? Sylvia Pag谩n Westphal inv

Life

Virtuous nature

Green foundations

Wanted: bloodsuckers

Dr Doom-monger I presume

More

Rebels without a cause

Time is running out for the rogue genes that make cells turn traitor and cause cancer

Superhighway dreaming

Take care, now

Bubble, bubble鈥�

As hot as hell

Reasons to be cheerful

Patrick Moore

Storm Dunlop

A visitor’s guide to the Red Planet

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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