MARCH
2002
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.

How
her brain does the shopping
Scientists have used a scanner to show which part of our grey
matter makes brand choices. Roger Highfield reports.
20 Mar
2002

Select
a box of cornflakes and put your
finger on free will
THERE is more to deciding to reach for a box of cornflakes than
you may think. Our experience of controlling any event, such as
grasping for a box of cereal, involves an illusion created by
the brain to preserve our sense of free will, according to a study
published this week.
20 Mar
2002

Isaac
the roaming pike homes in on a
marvel of nature
THE summer wanderings of a fish called Isaac have produced the
first hard evidence that pike have a finely tuned homing instinct.
19 Mar
2002

Relative
failure
Beautiful thoughts marred by Einstein's ugly miscalculation, reckons
Robert Matthews.
17 Mar
2002

Love
online 'can be stronger'
ROMANCES that begin on the internet are more likely to be successful
than those that begin in pubs or nightclubs, psychologists claimed
yesterday.
16 Mar
2002

Footballers
pay penalty for a bad reputation
British Psychological Society Special.
16 Mar
2002

Sex
hormone is key to winning home matches
SCIENTISTS may have discovered the key to the "home advantage"
in football: testosterone. They found that levels of the sex hormone
surged by more than 50 per cent in players of a Premiership junior
squad before they played a match on their own turf.
16 Mar
2002

Satellites
offer in-depth look at oceans
A PAIR of satellites is due to be launched this morning that can
weigh ice sheets and peer beneath the oceans by measuring tiny
changes in gravity.
16 Mar
2002

Myth
of the male menopause
THE male menopause, with stories of poor sexual performance that
frighten men, is untrue, according to a new study presented yesterday.
16 Mar
2002

Men
can be bitchy too
YOUNG men are just as likely as women to be "bitchy" gossips and
to ignore former friends, a study into aggression has shown.
15 Mar
2002

Great
wisdom 'wasted'
THE experience and wisdom of the oldest generation are being thrown
away because there is no clear role for great-grandparents in
family life, a psychologist said yesterday.
15 Mar
2002

New
ecstasy warning
TAKING ecstasy once a month is enough to cause serious memory
loss and poor concentration long after the euphoria has worn off,
says the largest study of its kind.
15 Mar
2002

'Food
dudes' persuade children to eat greens
A MODERN day version of Popeye, the spinach-guzzling cartoon character
dating from 1929, is persuading children to eat up their greens.
15 Mar
2002

When
the pressure is on, narcissists shine
HE is reviled in workplaces across Britain: the obnoxious, self-important
employee who is more interested in impressing the boss than knuckling
down.
15 Mar
2002

Paralysed
people to use power of thought
THE power of thought can now be harnessed to move a cursor across
a screen, marking another step towards enabling paralysed people
to control a computer.
14 Mar
2002

Blood
test may spot early signs of lung cancer
SCIENTISTS have made an important step towards a blood test for
the early stages of lung cancer.
13 Mar
2002

Butterfly
adverts waiting in the wings
THE ability to write designs, logos and messages on the wings
of butterflies could emerge from research to create the first
GM butterfly, a scientist said yesterday.
13 Mar
2002

Laughter?
It's a funny business
We laugh more frequently than we eat, sing or have sex. So why
do we know so little about it? David Derbyshire investigates.
13 Mar
2002

Science
shorts
The rest of the week's science stories.
13 Mar
2002

New
comet to make star appearance
A NEWLY discovered comet will be bright enough to see with the
naked eye when it passes Earth later this month.
11 Mar
2002

Beijing
backs scientists in race to mass produce cloned organs
CHINESE scientists are to receive state backing for the mass production
of human organs from sacrificial embryos, using controversial
technology involving the fusion of human tissue with animal egg
cells.
10 Mar
2002

Fundamentalists
re-create Eden, with dinosaurs
AMERICAN scientists are outraged over plans for a multi-million-dollar
museum dedicated to telling the nation's schoolchildren that God
made the world in seven days and that Darwin is a fraud.
10 Mar
2002

The
M-word
Is the wearing of floral shirts too high a price for peace of
mind? Robert Matthews ponders the question.
10 Mar
2002

Computer
hitch made universe turn green
SCIENTISTS made the astonishing revelation in January that the
true colour of the universe is half way between turquoise and
aquamarine.
08 Mar
2002

Ancient
ice holds clues to climate
SCIENTISTS are examining the oldest ice in the world for evidence
of long-term climate change.
07 Mar
2002

Cannabis
linked to memory problems
LONG-TERM users of cannabis are risking serious problems with
their memory and concentration, a new study reveals.
06 Mar
2002

Which
one do you trust?
David Derbyshire speaks to Nobel prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse about
the MMR, dumbed down TV and the public's perception of scientists.
06 Mar
2002

Mud,
mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for breeding a bug, says Roger Highfield.
06 Mar
2002

Pollution
'as dangerous as passive smoking'
TRAFFIC fumes and city smog significantly increase the risks of
dying from lung cancer and heart disease, according to one of
the most detailed studies into the dangers of air pollution.
06 Mar
2002

50pc
believe big business runs science
ONE in two people believes that scientists are in the pockets
of big business and that scientific research has become too commercialised.
06 Mar
2002

Where
you can live for ever
Controversial plans for an embryo cell bank, reported first in
this newspaper, could give Britain a significant advantage, reports
Roger Highfield.
06 Mar
2002

First
giant squid to be caught alive is just a tiddler
THE giant squid, the monster of seafarers' mythology, has been
seen alive for the first time in recorded history - and it measured
less than half an inch.
05 Mar
2002

Quest
for 'alcohol gene' sets monkeys on binge
JUST like humans, small primates can acquire a taste for alcohol
- and behave in a similar fashion when under its influence, scientists
have discovered.
03 Mar
2002

Mission
to Mars from Milton Keynes
THE man most likely to answer the question "Is there life on Mars?"
is not a Nasa scientist in a Houston laboratory but a 58-year-old,
wild-haired professor who keeps cows on a farm in Cambridgeshire.
03 Mar
2002

Pro-lifers
will ask court to halt embryo experiments
PRO-LIFE groups are planning legal action to block embryonic stem
cell research by scientists in Edinburgh and London.
03 Mar
2002

Big
hopes for little pigs
THREE little pigs could help overcome concerns about unleashing
new diseases when transplanting pig organs into humans.
02 Mar
2002

Embryo
cell research licences granted
STUDIES of how to use human embryo cells to develop new treatments
for a vast range of diseases, from Parkinson's to diabetes, began
in earnest in Britain yesterday.
02 Mar
2002


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