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SEPTEMBER 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.

 

Red tape 'stifling drug production'
Burgeoning bureaucracy will make patients wait longer than ever for new drugs, and in some cases, they may be deprived of them altogether, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

29 Sep 2003

Relief as Euro probe blasts off for Moon
European space exploration took a giant leap with the successful launch of its first mission to the Moon

29 Sep 2003

Mission targets Moon's mysteries
A European space probe starts a mission to find out what the Moon is made of, and - if all goes well - to show how it was created more than four billion years ago

27 Sep 2003

Ralph, the cloned rat
Ralph the rodent is the latest creature to be cloned, an advance which its creators believe will help develop medicines by spurring the creation of GM rats

26 Sep 2003

Poodle sets standard as gene code is cracked
The genetic code of a dog - a poodle called Shadow - has been deciphered by scientists for the first time, an effort that will lead to medical benefits for both dogs and humans

26 Sep 2003

Exposed: the weird and the wonderful
The Daily Telegraph and Novartis Visions of Science awards have once again produced a stunning crop of images, says David Derbyshire

24 Sep 2003

Now see the exhibition
The Daily Telegraph and Novartis Visions of Science photography awards touring exhibition is at the Science Museum, London, from Monday, October 13 until Saturday, November 29.

24 Sep 2003

10,000-year-old cemetery shows ancient nomads putting down roots
A cave where stone-age hunters laid their dead to rest more than 10,000 years ago has been found to be the oldest cemetery in Britain

24 Sep 2003

Scientists press UN for worldwide ban on cloning of babies
Scientists from around the world urged the United Nations to ban the cloning of babies

23 Sep 2003

Britons lead the way for vasectomies
British men are among the most willing in the world to have vasectomies, according to a study

23 Sep 2003


Woman scientist claims victimisation
The glamorous director of the Royal Institution finds herself under constant attack from colleagues hiding behind anonymity, reports Roger Highfield

22 Sep 2003

Galileo's mission to Jupiter ends with fiery dive
The Galileo spacecraft ended its 14-year mission of planetary exploration in a fiery suicide dive into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere

22 Sep 2003

Cloning patient's own cells may cure Parkinson's
Cloning a patient's own tissue could be the next step in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, according to a study

22 Sep 2003

Can chromosomes be the elixir of youth?
Roger Highfield reports on the latest attempts hold back ageing

19 Sep 2003

When giant guinea pigs roamed the Earth
Herds of buffalo-sized guinea pigs roamed South America millions of years ago, according to a study of a fossil that is today recognised as the biggest rodent ever discovered

19 Sep 2003

Capuchins prove we are brothers under the skin
The idea of fair play and justice was probably invented by monkeys 40 million years ago, says a study

18 Sep 2003

Molehills made out of mountains
The discovery of sea floor spreading is more earth-shaking than that of DNA's structure, yet those responsible are forgotten, says Anna Grayson

17 Sep 2003

Failing the fight for diversity
One day we'll rue the departure of Daniel, Ebeneezer and the District Nurse, writes William McDowall

17 Sep 2003

Cost timebomb 'may kill supply of new drugs'
The supply of innovative drugs could dry up by 2015 because of spiralling costs, says the head of the organisation that decides which treatments and technologies should be available on the NHS

17 Sep 2003

By Jupiter, it's over for Galileo
One of the most successful chapters in the history of planetary exploration ends on Sunday when Nasa's Galileo spacecraft burns up in Jupiter's atmosphere

17 Sep 2003


Better screening 'to cut cancer death rates'
Death rates from four of the most feared cancers - breast, cervical, bowel and prostate - will fall during the next 10 years because of improved national screening

16 Sep 2003

Sleeping secrets revealed by undercover professor
Your bedtime position can reveal your personality. Becky Barrow reports

16 Sep 2003

Longevity 'is not a threat to NHS'
The fear that the ageing population will place a crippling burden on the National Health Service is a myth, the British Association science festival in Salford was told

13 Sep 2003

Shocking tale of Joule and his servant girl
One of the pioneers of physics, who gave his name (Joule) to the basic unit of energy found on every food wrapper, repeatedly gave electric shocks to his servant girl to help develop his ideas about energy

13 Sep 2003

Garlic proves the kiss of death to slugs and snails
Slugs and snails have a vampire-like aversion to garlic, according to a study that confirms centuries-old gardening folklore

13 Sep 2003

Del Boy's car 'could save Earth'
An armageddon asteroid could be deflected from a collision course with Earth using the power of Del Boy's Robin Reliant, said a space expert

13 Sep 2003

Weekend drinking danger
One million hospital casualty cases on Friday and Saturday nights are linked to alcohol each year, according to a survey released yesterday

12 Sep 2003

Crime is a class act as Britain hits back at rip-off culture
Crime has become respectable, according to a survey that suggests almost two thirds of middle class people fiddle insurance claims, return new clothes after wearing them to a party and keep money when "overchanged"

12 Sep 2003

Cleopatra's dye secret is revealed
More than 500 years after the secret was lost, a British scientist claims to have rediscovered how the Romans created imperial purple - the colour that adorned the togas of emperors and the sails of Cleopatra's ship

12 Sep 2003

Scientist challenges Science
The credibility of the world's most prestigious scientific journal was called into question yesterday by one of Britain's leading scientists

12 Sep 2003

Brussels red tape 'costs lives of cancer patients'
An explosion in red tape from Brussels and Whitehall is stifling research into cancer drugs and "almost undoubtedly" costing lives, Britain's biggest charity said

12 Sep 2003

Just a thought ... telepathy may exist
Experiments on artists and musicians show that "telepathy" may exist, the meeting was told

11 Sep 2003

Women 'better than men at instant maths'
Women are quicker than men at carrying out a primitive, "instant judgment" type of maths, according to the world's largest mathematics experiment

11 Sep 2003

IVF patients 'are experimented on'
Some IVF treatments routinely used in Britain are poorly researched and may be harmful for babies, one of Britain's leading fertility experts said

11 Sep 2003

VCR that calls the police if it is stolen
A video recorder that rings the police if it is being stolen could revolutionise home security, a technology expert said yesterday

11 Sep 2003

How chickens helped fire medieval cannon
Medieval gunpowder packed more of a punch than scientists thought, according to a project to recreate the explosive using dung pits, foot stomping and wood ash

11 Sep 2003