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JANUARY 2004

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.

 

Deft snips, fast quips and a riot of colours
If Dr Michael Perelman had been awake for the operation, he would have been proud of the great riot of colour going on inside his chest. Staring at Dr Perelman's heart from the comfort of a small cinema near the Science Museum wasn't gruesome, but it was beautiful.

30 Jan 2004

Briton's open-heart surgery is broadcast live
A cardiologist goes under the scalpel in America as a London audience watches, reports Roger Highfield

30 Jan 2004

Nasa accused of painting Mars red
The American space agency Nasa has been accused of doctoring its pictures of Mars to make the Martian surface conform to our impression of the famously red planet

29 Jan 2004

Ecosystem at risk as drug kills vultures by million
Tens of millions of vultures have died after eating cattle carcasses contaminated with a common animal drug

29 Jan 2004

Animal lab scrapped in face of protests
Cambridge University and the Government were accused of buckling under pressure from animal activists after scrapping plans for a medical research centre that would conduct live experiments on monkeys

28 Jan 2004

Telegraph winner is off to Milan

28 Jan 2004

Only the eagle-eyed will spot a fake...
Natural history film-makers should be allowed to manipulate images but not distort the truth, says David Attenborough

28 Jan 2004

Pictures of Mars by rover No 2 thrill Nasa
The final stage of Earth's invasion of Mars got under way when the second Nasa rover, a golf cart-sized buggy called Opportunity, successfully bounced on to the Red Planet's surface

26 Jan 2004

A baby dragon, or a bad joke?
A pickled "dragon" that looks as if it might once have flown around Hogwarts has been found in a garage in Oxfordshire

24 Jan 2004

Secret of the red planet: Water found on Mars
Europe's Mars Express probe has found the first direct evidence of water on Mars, raising hopes of alien life and boosting plans to send a manned mission there

24 Jan 2004

Heart operation will be shown live on TV
A British man was invited last night to have his open-heart surgery shown live from an operating theatre in America to a London audience

24 Jan 2004

Mars rover sends a beep of alarm
The curse of Mars may have struck again. After the apparent loss of Britain's Beagle 2 lander, Nasa reported hat it had lost contact with Spirit as the rover was about to study a rock on the red planet

23 Jan 2004

Don't wake me up . . . I'm being creative
Scientists have produced the first hard evidence to show that sleep helps problem solving

22 Jan 2004

Fertility chief's contempt for cloning doctor
Panos Zavos, the doctor who claims to have begun cloning experiments, "deserves nothing more than contempt", says the head of Britain's fertility watchdog

21 Jan 2004

Mars... a big step for womankind?
It's not just physical dangers astronauts have to contend with. Psychological friction is a big problem – especially for men, says Raj Persaud

21 Jan 2004

Making cars bird-proof
Claire Bithell, one of last year's winners in the The Daily Telegraph/BASF Science Writer Awards, reports on extreme measures to improve your car's bodywork

21 Jan 2004

Hubble is abandoned to its lonely vigil in space
As Nasa turns its attention to Mars, the orbiting telescope faces an uncertain future without shuttle maintenance missions. David Derbyshire reports

19 Jan 2004

Feel-good herb may offer HRT alternative
Black cohosh, a herb used to treat the menopause, may be a safe alternative to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) despite earlier studies linking it to breast cancer

17 Jan 2004

Scientists support Gwyneth's grey day moan
Gwyneth Paltrow recently described the British sky as "very small and very grey and impenetrable." Patriots howled. Now scientists are springing to her defence

17 Jan 2004

Don't sleep with your baby
Parents were advised last night not to share their bed with a young baby after new evidence that the practice increases the risk of cot death

16 Jan 2004

The changing guidelines on how to
cut cot death risk

In 1991, when the television presenter Anne Diamond lost her five-month-old baby Sebastian to sudden infant death syndrome, Government advice was clear - babies should be placed on their fronts to avoid the risk of choking and vomiting

16 Jan 2004

MP's plea wins change to law on 'baby bonds'
Ministers have agreed to change the rules on "baby bonds" to help parents of disabled children pay for their care, following the intervention of a Tory MP

16 Jan 2004

Advice to parents
First wheel tracks on Mars as the robot rover gets rolling
The Spirit rover successfully rolled on to Mars yesterday, placing its six wheels on Martian soil for the first time since landing nearly two weeks ago

16 Jan 2004

Village protesters force masts to be removed
Scientists advising the Government dismissed protesters' health fears about mobile phone masts yesterday saying they were even less likely to pose a risk than the phones themselves

15 Jan 2004

Experts dismiss mobile phone cancer threat
There was no evidence linking mobile phones to cancer or other health problems but more research needed to be done to be sure, a panel of experts have said

15 Jan 2004

Big trouble in the bio bubble...
The visionary Biosphere 2 has been beset by problems from the start. Roger Highfield reviews the unsustainable sustainability project

14 Jan 2004

Emotions keep us disgustingly healthy
The emotion of disgust evolved to help to protect us from infectious disease, according to scientists

14 Jan 2004

Nasa's Martian rover nearly ready to roll
Nasa scientists are readying the Spirit rover to roll down a ramp on to Gusev Crater after a delay in its mission to find evidence of water on Mars

13 Jan 2004

Spraying with milk can cure plant mildew
Spraying diluted milk over plants can cure mildew without the need for chemical fungicides, according to a study

13 Jan 2004

To boringly go where they've gone before
The first images of Mars cost £800m to collect and showed a barren, rocky landscape; 28 years on, pictures of Mars have cost a mere £200m - and show a barren, rocky landscape. Robert Matthews asks what America keeps going back for

11 Jan 2004

US plan to put men on Mars
The United States is to return to the Moon, building a settlement there as a launch pad for a manned mission to Mars, President George W Bush is due to announce next week

10 Jan 2004

Sex, meat and toothpaste blamed for failing tests
Lenny Paul, the British bobsleigher, blamed the mince in his spaghetti bolognese for his failed nandrolone test

10 Jan 2004

The astronomical costs and risks of president's dream missions to Mars
Once again an American president has offered a vision of humanity leaving the cradle of Earth and spilling out into the stars

10 Jan 2004

Scottish farmed salmon 'is full of cancer toxins'
Farmed Atlantic salmon from Scotland contains the highest levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the world, a new survey has found

09 Jan 2004

Climate change threatens a million species
A million species worldwide are threatened with extinction by climate change over the next half century, according to a comprehensive analysis by scientists

08 Jan 2004

'Best chance' of finding Beagle 2 fails
Hopes for Beagle 2 were all but abandoned yesterday after its mothership failed to make contact with the missing British Martian probe

08 Jan 2004

Wildlife in peril around the world
The predicted impact of climate change by 2050 includes

08 Jan 2004

Where science is the prize subject at school
The reason that The Royal High School in Bath scooped so many prizes in the nation's most prestigious science writing competition is revealed

07 Jan 2004

Apes of war... is it in our genes?
Research into the aggressive behaviour of male chimpanzees, our closest biological ally, suggests that the urge to go to war is in our DNA and that only women can stop it, says Sanjida O'Connell

07 Jan 2004

Time shift dilemma of the 'slaves to Mars'
Life on Earth is taking on a Martian timescale for the scientists and engineers monitoring Nasa's mission to the Red Planet

06 Jan 2004

Beagle team refuses to give up hope
The news of Spirit's successful bounce-down on the red planet marked a double blow for Prof Colin Pillinger, the head of Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2 Mars lander effort

05 Jan 2004

Pictures from Mars confirm triumph for Nasa
A robot rover sent back pictures of a bleak Martian landscap after making a fiery descent through the atmosphere, launching a new Nasa mission to uncover evidence that the Red Planet was once suitable for life

05 Jan 2004

Stardust tames the Wild comet
Dozens of close-up images of a distant comet that show the frozen ball of rock and ice spewing jets of dust and gas have been taken during a risky mission to capture samples and return them to Earth

05 Jan 2004

Animal activists take monkey lab plan to court
A Cambridge University proposal to build a monkey laboratory to study brain disorders has faced a High Court challenge

03 Jan 2004

13,000mph probe tries to catch comet dust
A space probe attempted to fly through the tail of a comet last night, aiming to capture a sprinkling of comet dust that will eventually be returned to Earth for analysis

03 Jan 2004

Nasa golf buggies prepare for rough landing on Mars
Spirit, one of a pair of six-wheeled robot laboratories, bounces down on to the Red Planet on Sunday morning after a 300 million-mile journey

02 Jan 2004

Milky Way map shows the way to other civilisations
The hunt for extraterrestrials has become a little easier after the discovery that up to 10 per cent of stars in our galaxy may harbour conditions necessary for complex life to emerge

02 Jan 2004

Food 'conveyor belt' in southern ocean
Almost all marine life on the planet turns on a single ocean circulation pattern in the Southern Hemisphere which pumps nutrient-rich water from the deep and spreads it across the seas, scientists report

01 Jan 2004