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DECEMBER 2003

This section features key science stories from The Daily Telegraph's online news service at www.telegraph.co.uk. Click on the links for the full story.

 

Dust chaser swoops down on to the tail of a comet
A heavily-shielded space probe is about to fly through the tail of a comet more than 240 million miles away, capturing interstellar particles and comet dust for eventual return to Earth

31 Dec 2003

Knighthood for stem cell pioneer
Prof Martin Evans, an unsung stalwart of research that has potential to treat a widespread range of diseases, is awarded a knighthood

31 Dec 2003

Hang on a second, what's the real time?
The stakes are high because lives could be put at risk by scientists tinkering with 'leap seconds'. Roger Highfield reports

31 Dec 2003

Orbiter joins Beagle hunt
Europe's Mars Express spacecraft successfully entered a polar orbit of Mars in a move that should allow it to start searching for Beagle 2 next week

31 Dec 2003

EU-Chinese joint satellite launched
China and the European Union launched their first joint satellite, a symbol of growing closeness between two regional powers that see themselves as potential counterweights to the US

31 Dec 2003

Is Beagle 2 trapped in a Martian crater?
Beagle 2 may have been swallowed up by a giant crater as it floated to the surface of Mars, said British scientists

30 Dec 2003

Beagle's team pins hopes on mother ship
The latest scan for a signal from Britain's lost Beagle 2 Mars probe by the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire ended in the small hours of the morning without any contact

29 Dec 2003

'We tested it all, but...'
Adam Lusher joins the brave faces at Beagle's London base

28 Dec 2003

Leicester, we have a problem
The frenzied efforts by Beagle 2's control centre to detect its faint electronic bark from the surface of Mars have so far failed, but why? Robert Matthews investigates the mishaps that dogged the project

28 Dec 2003

Beagle silence 'not good news'
A leading member of the Beagle 2 team has described the failure of more attempts to find Britain's lost Mars probe as "not good news"

27 Dec 2003

Hopes for British Mars probe receding
Hopes for the British Mars probe Beagle 2 were starting to fade after it failed to make contact with scientists for the second day running

27 Dec 2003

Still no signal
Scientists still hoping for contact with Britain's missing Mars probe Beagle 2 are tonight making another attempt to communicate with the craft using the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank

26 Dec 2003

Mission to Mars: British probe could be first to answer the question about alien life
The Japanese called their Mars mission Nozomi - the Japanese for hope. The Americans went for Spirit and Opportunity. And Britain? The UK named its probe after a dog

26 Dec 2003

The brilliant 'yokel' who set his heart on a Journey into Space all of his own
With his straggling greying hair, sideburns you could hide a small puppy in and a thick Bristol accent, the saviour of British space science cuts an unlikely figure

26 Dec 2003

Scientists still hoping for first contact with Beagle
Scientists were left disappointed yesterday after Beagle 2, the first UK spacecraft to voyage to another planet, failed to make contact with home

26 Dec 2003

Beagle off the leash
Beagle 2, the British probe that will seek out life on Mars, was ejected from its mother ship on Friday and started the final leg of its journey.

23 Dec 2003

Space telescope sends images of hidden cosmos
A new window to the universe opened yesterday with the release of the first dazzling images from Nasa's Spitzer space telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility

19 Dec 2003

Beagle 2 prepares for the final push to Mars
Britain's mission to land a spacecraft on Mars reaches its first nail-biting moment today when the Beagle 2 probe is ejected and sent hurtling towards the Red Planet

19 Dec 2003

A rough guide to the Solar System
In a Christmas lecture, Monica Grady will take a young Royal Institution audience on a voyage through space. Here is an exclusive extract

17 Dec 2003

Ministers raid health research millions
Ministers were criticised for raiding millions of pounds earmarked for medical research and using it to solve hospital funding problems

15 Dec 2003

The curse of Mars
The British-led Beagle 2 probe is about to enter the last, and most risky, stage of its six-month-long, 250-million-mile journey. Robert Matthews meets Professor Colin Pillinger, the driving force behind the mission to the Red Planet

14 Dec 2003

Fridges 'linked to Crohn's disease'
Refrigerators may be to blame for the rise of Crohn's disease over the last 50 years, researchers have claimed

12 Dec 2003

'People will be put off finding help'
Sarah is 15 and has been taking the antidepressant Cipramil since August.

11 Dec 2003

Antidepressants do children 'more harm than good'
Doctors were told yesterday not to give some of the most common antidepressants to children after a review found that their risks outweighed the benefits.

11 Dec 2003

Artificial sperm offers hope on infertility treatment
The ability to grow artificial sperm to enable men to overcome infertility is now a step closer

11 Dec 2003


DNA kits may force P D James to cut to the chase
Baroness James of Holland Park, the crime writer P D James, has always had a good idea of whodunit.

10 Dec 2003

Ban on stem cell work 'would be disastrous'
Pioneering British research that could revolutionise the treatment of disease is being threatened by European plans to ban experiments on cloned embryo stem cells, say leading scientists.

09 Dec 2003

Never-ending battle to beat the 'superbugs'
Scientists are engaged in a never-ending battle to keep one step ahead of bacteria, as the bugs develop resistance to one antibiotic after another

06 Dec 2003

425m-year-old penis found
A 425-million-year-old fossilised penis, the oldest ever recorded, has been discovered by scientists

05 Dec 2003

Prehistoric rhino fills giant gap in the
story of Africa

A new species of the rhino-like Arsinoitherium has been found in the highlands of Ethiopia, one of a range of fossils from 27 million years ago that fill a gap in our understanding of evolution.

04 Dec 2003

British probe survives solar storms
on the final approach

David Derbyshire talks to Professor Colin Pillinger, head of the Beagle 2 project, about the next delicate stage of its experiments

03 Dec 2003


Mother Nature's eye problem
Evolution deprived our eyes of the ability to regenerate. Roger Highfield looks at how Telegraph readers can help scientists overcome this hurdle

03 Dec 2003

Echinacea 'useless for treating colds'
Echinacea, one of the most popular herbal remedies, is useless at treating colds in children, a study shows

03 Dec 2003


Microbeam can drive cancer cells to suicide
A futuristic "microbeam" that zaps individual cancer cells with a stream of particles could revolutionise radiotherapy

02 Dec 2003

Stem cells are used to grow new joint
The ball of a joint has been grown in a laboratory from cells, showing how tissue engineering could help repair jaws, knees and hips

01 Dec 2003

Working out 'may lead to a physical addiction'
Working out at the gym every day could lead to a physical addiction to exercise, according to a recent scientific study

01 Dec 2003