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NOVEMBER 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.

 

High and low tides put bounce into Britain
Parts of Britain "bounce" by four inches twice a day and the most wobbly counties are Devon and Cornwall, says a survey

29 Nov 2003

Flu virus 'is the greatest bio-terror threat of all'
Nature's "on-going experiments" with influenza strains "may be the greatest bio-terror threat of all", with the world alarmingly unprepared for a global epidemic, researchers warn

28 Nov 2003


Caesarean 'doubles future stillbirth risk'
Women who choose to have caesareans may be doubling the risk that their next baby is stillborn

28 Nov 2003

Carol Vorderman's brain is a work of art
It is a brain that has won much admiration for the speed and dexterity with which it solves mathematical sums on the quiz show Countdown. Now Carol Vorderman's grey matter has been turned into a work of art and is to go on show

28 Nov 2003

How I chopped the fat from bacon...
Wilbur the 300kg boar will help farmers to breed leaner, tastier, more profitable animals. Roger Highfield reports

26 Nov 2003

Debate on GM a 'missed opportunity'
The unprecedented GM Nation? public debate missed this opportunity to become a new tool of democracy, say MPs

26 Nov 2003

Flu jab economy 'puts children's lives at risk'
Cost-cutting and the phobia over the MMR vaccine have put young people at greater risk of dying from the Fujian strain of flu, a leading virologist warns

24 Nov 2003

'Master molecule' could be pathway to treating schizophrenia
A study of mice given pychosis-inducing drugs has provided a valuable new insight into how to treat schizophrenia, a spectrum of serious mental disorders that affects one person in every 100

24 Nov 2003

Spina bifida in babies is linked with cornflakes and white bread
Pregnant women who eat sugary or highly processed food such as white bread and cornflakes face double the risk of having malformed babies, according to new research

23 Nov 2003

A Parkinson's victim whose life changed
Former sufferer has reason to be thankful for animal research, says Roger Highfield

22 Nov 2003

Activists declare war over new monkey lab
The Government gave Cambridge University permission to build a monkey laboratory where scientists will study brain disorders such as autism and Alzheimer's disease

22 Nov 2003

Asteroid 'caused early mass extinction'
An asteroid impact probably caused the largest mass extinction in the history of Earth, according to new evidence

21 Nov 2003

Scientists pinpoint last days of the dodo
The exact year that the last dodo keeled over and died has been pinpointed by scientists for the first time

20 Nov 2003


Highway to heaven
The space elevator – once an outlandish sci-fi fantasy – could soon become a safe and cost-effective reality. Roger Highfield reports

19 Nov 2003

Researchers team up to tackle cystic fibrosis
Hope of an effective treatment for sufferers of cystic fibrosis, the most common genetic disease in Britain, was raised by the announcement of a major gene therapy trial

18 Nov 2003

'This disease is a daunting thing to live with'
Cara Doran, 25, is one of the 7,500 sufferers of cystic fibrosis who would like to take part in the forthcoming British gene therapy trial

18 Nov 2003

Angina treatment to be tested on 900 patients
The biggest trial of gene therapy has been launched to test a promising treatment that can boost blood flow in the hearts of angina sufferers

18 Nov 2003

Sum total of Jonny's kicking prowess is worked out
Researchers have come up with a formula to describe the astonishing kicking prowess of the English rugby union star Jonny Wilkinson

15 Nov 2003


Hard mattresses fail back pain test
The belief that hard mattresses are good for bad backs is a myth, according to research

14 Nov 2003

Sons I gave birth to are 'unrelated' to me
One human chimera came to light when a 52-year-old woman demanded an explanation from doctors after tests showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her

13 Nov 2003

IVF babies 'more likely' to have mixed-up genes
Drugs that improve chance of conception may also be responsible for more human chimeras. Roger Highfield reports

13 Nov 2003

Bones of contention
Vital scientific research could be at risk if museums are forced to repatriate human remains, writes Chris Stringer

12 Nov 2003

Diet 'works for at least six weeks'
The controversial Atkins diet, hated by nutritionists but loved by the public, works for at least the first six weeks, says a study

12 Nov 2003

Bird that was too tasty for its own good
The great bustard is returning after being hunted to extinction, writes David Derbyshire

10 Nov 2003

For the bustard it was a recipe for disaster
Great bustards were particularly prized for their flavour and cost a small fortune to buy

10 Nov 2003

Explorers find the lost ruins of sacred Inca city
Using an infra-red camera to peer through dense Peruvian forest cover for the first time, explorers have found a lost ruin which seems to be a sister site of the Inca ceremonial city of Machu Picchu

07 Nov 2003

Sun's storm heads towards the Earth
Solar storms that have buffeted the Earth over the past two weeks showed no signs of abating after the most powerful flare ever recorded was unleashed

06 Nov 2003

Voyager 1 reaches edge of solar system
A probe launched a quarter of a century ago may have become the first to explore a turbulent zone at the outer limits of the solar system, space scientists report

06 Nov 2003


Anabolic time bombs: could steroids turn you into a violent psychotic?
Anabolic steroids are widely abused by athletes and bodybuiders. Now it seems their effects may linger long after muscles and strength have waned, fuelling violent behaviour for decades to come

05 Nov 2003


How bugs hitch-hike across the galaxy
Mankind's search for alien life could be jeopardised by ultra-resilient bacteria from Earth. David Derbyshire reports

05 Nov 2003


A free insight into creativity in art and science
The role of science in art – and of art in science – is being explored next week during a Novartis/Daily Telegraph Visions of Science symposium

05 Nov 2003

Explosives experts say Guy Fawkes would have destroyed Parliament
Guy Fawkes would have blown the Houses of Parliament sky high if his Gunpowder Plot had succeeded, according to a new study by explosives experts

05 Nov 2003

Vintage years ahead for English wines
The quality of the world's wines has improved over the past 50 years because of global warming, research suggests

04 Nov 2003

Perfect vision, at a blink
Christine Doyle looks at a range of eye treatments that make glasses increasingly unnecessary

04 Nov 2003

Gold shells can kill inoperable tumours
Tiny golden "nanoshells" offer a new way to kill inoperable tumours without harming surrounding tissue, according to a new study

04 Nov 2003

Stormy weather as spacecraft battens
down the hatches

The intense solar storms that hit the Earth this week have forced officials to "batten down the hatches" on Mars Express, the European spacecraft carrying the British Beagle 2 probe to the Red Planet

01 Nov 2003