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OCTOBER 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.

 

MMR scare scientist warns of impending measles epidemic
A scientist whose research helped to trigger the MMR health scare has given a warning of a measles epidemic unless parents overcame their "illogical" fears of the vaccine

31 Oct 2003

Scientists trace the life story of mummy in ice
More than 5,200 years after he collapsed and died on an Alpine mountainside, the life story of Otzi the mummified iceman has been pieced together

31 Oct 2003

Celestial fireworks as solar storm hits
The third major solar storm in a week was predicted to hit the Earth, threatening satellite and communications systems but also raising the chances of another night of spectacular northern lights

31 Oct 2003


Universe began not with a bang - but a whistle
The universe may have begun with a whistle rather than a Big Bang, says a new study of the afterglow of the moment of Creation

30 Oct 2003

Why women have mercy on men
In a finding that will come as no surprise to the wives of philandering Cabinet ministers, television presenters and footballers, researchers have discovered that women adopt more forgiving attitudes than men

29 Oct 2003

What does it mean to be me?
It is a riddle that still foxes scientists Ð where in the brain our sense of self is born. Paul Broks reports

29 Oct 2003

'I think I'll just pick up a glass of beer...'
An Austrian paralysed from the neck down after a diving accident has been able to use his own arm and hand to reach for and drink a beer, and to eat a slice of toast - just by thinking about it

29 Oct 2003

Cigarettes 'can double danger of getting MS'
Smoking can more than double a person's chances of developing multiple sclerosis, a study reports

28 Oct 2003

Explorers on the trail of Lost City of Atlantis
An expedition to the Strait of Gibraltar may solve one of the world's greatest mysteries, reports Roger Highfield

27 Oct 2003

Scientists 'are born - not made'
The reason that people are drawn to the sciences could be genetic rather than cultural

27 Oct 2003

Solar storms threaten mobiles and power
The Earth was put on solar storm alert yesterday when astronomers warned that satellites, power systems and mobile phones were at risk of disruption

25 Oct 2003

Secrets of the deep
Discoveries during the first three years of the Census of Marine Life include:

24 Oct 2003

Billion dollar hunt for 2mspecies under the sea
The total number of species in the world's oceans could be more than two million, according to scientists working on a billion-dollar international effort to document all marine life

24 Oct 2003

Healthy teenage years 'can delay breast cancer'
Exercise and healthy weight during teenage years can lead to a significant delay in the development of breast cancer, even among women with the highest genetic risk, according to a major study

24 Oct 2003

'It's a glorified sewing job'
The face contains dozens of nerves, arteries and veins, and more muscles than any other part of the body. For the transplant, two teams will perform 10 hours of complex micro-surgery to shift muscle, lips, ear, nose and skin from a dead donor to the living recipient

22 Oct 2003

Do you fancy a new face? Surgeons could transplant one today
Plastic surgeons say they are ready for the most emotive advance in their repertoire yet – but is the general public? Roger Highfield reports on the issues that will be debated at a pioneering new science centre

22 Oct 2003

Too many questions will need to be answered...
Surgeons, and perhaps more than a few patients, too, are awaiting the Royal College of Surgeons report on face transplantation with excitement mixed with trepidation. Earlier this year, the idea triggered a media frenzy. A nauseating hunt for the first guinea pig led to one paper even printing a name - quickly withdrawn after parental protests

22 Oct 2003

The Dana Centre: a perfect place to get wired
The £10 million Dana Centre is a world first, a unique venue where the public and researchers will come together to discuss the hottest issues of contemporary science

22 Oct 2003

Face/Off is 'pure fiction'
Would the recipient of a face transplant end up looking like the donor? Yes, according to the scenario popularised in the Hollywood thriller Face/Off, where FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) assumes the identity of Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage)

22 Oct 2003

Patients with a history of painful trials and errors
The Falklands veteran Simon Weston needed 70 operations to rebuild his face. In 1982, as a 20-year-old Welsh Guardsman, nearly half his body was burnt by a blaze aboard the Sir Galahad. In its wake, Weston endured years of painful surgery. Only one fifth of his body has been untouched by the scars left by skin grafts

22 Oct 2003

Unearthed: a luxury Roman villa with chapel and granny flat
The earliest private chapel from Dark Age Britain has been unearthed in Roman ruins

20 Oct 2003

The burning question
Yet another study has shown that the Atkins Diet works, but even the scientist in charge is baffled as to why the low-carb regime reduces fat more effectively than low-calorie eating plans. Robert Matthews reports

19 Oct 2003

The incredible shrinking mountains
Some of the world's highest mountains and largest lakes are shrinking, according to the most universally recognised atlas

16 Oct 2003

The frog that hopped with dinosaurs
A bloated, purple-black frog, with a pointy snout and beady eyes, is the last living representative of frogs that once hopped around the feet of dinosaurs

16 Oct 2003

The birth of our modern minds...
When did we begin to use symbols to communicate? Roger Highfield reports on a forthcoming lecture that challenges prevailing ideas

15 Oct 2003

Unpalatable but true: cannibalism was routine
The science of cannibalism has just become respectable, as irrefutable bio-molecular evidence that we have eaten each other for millennia spurs renewed efforts by archaeologists, geneticists and anthropologists to find out when we started to do it, and why

15 Oct 2003

It's a fact, left-handed batsmen do have the edge
Left-handers have an advantage when it comes to cricket, according to a study of batting records from the World Cup earlier this year

15 Oct 2003

Frozen embryos 'increase ectopic risk'
Doctors who freeze embryos for use in fertility treatment might be trebling the risk of an ectopic pregnancy, a study reveals

15 Oct 2003

Crumbs . . . we now know why biscuits break
The reason the cookie crumbles has been discovered by scientists with an ultra-sensitive laser scanning technique normally used in the aerospace and other high-tech industries

15 Oct 2003

Foetuses had three genetic parents
An attempt to cure infertility by creating babies with three genetic parents was halted when twins died in the womb

14 Oct 2003

Coffee perks up fertility levels
An early morning mug of coffee doesn't just raise the spirits, it also makes men more fertile, according to research

14 Oct 2003

Bee venom may increase IVF success
Bee sting venom can improve infertile women's chances of having a test-tube baby, according to a new study

14 Oct 2003

Maverick doctor's baby cloning claim
rejected as fantasy

Claims by the maverick doctor Panayiotis Zavos that he will clone a baby for less than £100,000 have been dismissed as fantasy by some of Europe's leading fertility experts

14 Oct 2003

News of scientists' advance replaces fear with hope of happy motherhood
Louise Lockley was 19 when she learnt that her excruciating back pain was caused by a rare form of bone cancer - and that treatment could leave her infertile

13 Oct 2003

New drug hailed as an extra weapon against breast cancer
The drug letrozole was one of the most important advances in treating breast cancer, experts have said

10 Oct 2003

GM crop 'almost certain to create plant hybrids'
Genetically modified crops were dealt another blow by a study showing that cross-breeding between oilseed rape and its wild relatives was more common than previously thought

10 Oct 2003

The pain of social rejection can be as real as a broken leg, reveals brain study
The heartache of rejection is just as real as the pain of a stubbed toe or broken leg, according to a brain study

10 Oct 2003

Research round-up:
from supercomputers to cave art

From supercomputers to cave art, reports Roger Highfiled

08 Oct 2003

Making sense of taste
The look, feel and even sound of your food can change the way it tastes. David Derbyshire investigates the strange world of flavour

08 Oct 2003

On a family mission to Mars
In this the year of Mars, and with World Space Week upon us, Sarah Bunn transports her family to the National Space Centre in Leicester for a hands on experience of the space-ial kind

04 Oct 2003

Doodling 'can draw on powers of thought'
One of Britain's leading mathematicians, Sir Roger Penrose, is to reveal how doodles help him to wrestle with highly abstract calculations at the launch of a campaign to encourage people to draw

03 Oct 2003

Meteor image makes schoolboy
Nasa's shooting star

A schoolboy has caused excitement at Nasa, the US space agency, after capturing a picture of a meteor burning out above his home town

03 Oct 2003

Fame at last for duck that met an ignoble end
The first scientist to record homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, the inventors of Murphy's law and a group of Swedes who trained chickens to distinguish men from women were among the winners of the "Ig Nobel" prizes

03 Oct 2003

Prehistoric Long Man is '16th century new boy'
The origins of England's tallest chalk hill figure, the Long Man of Wilmington, have puzzled historians and archaeologists for generations

02 Oct 2003

When brain power counts
The brain power of television's leading number cruncher is the subject of three Visions of Science lectures

01 Oct 2003

Today, we'd ignore Einstein
Original thinking is being strangled by bureaucracy, say top scientists. Roger Highfield reports

01 Oct 2003

HRT risks outweigh benefits
The dangers of hormone replacement therapy outweigh any of its bone strengthening health benefits, says a study

01 Oct 2003

Asthma 'may be linked to antibiotics in infancy'
The "epidemic" of asthma and allergies sweeping the West may be linked to the overuse of antibiotics in the first few months of life, new research suggests

01 Oct 2003