News, January 2002

• Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer - Premium content

  Genetic profiling could help tailor treatment to tumour.

  31 January 2002

• More floods to come - Premium content

  Build on hills, modelling of past and present climate warns.

  31 January 2002

• Genome sequence of the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum - Premium content

  Researchers grapple with wilt-causing bacteria.

  31 January 2002

• Car work for quantum mechanics - Premium content

  A quantum afterburner extracts laser light from vehicle exhaust.

  30 January 2002

• Air traffic tussles up annoyance - Premium content

  Controversies over new airport runways make locals more noise-sensitive.

  30 January 2002

• Jellies roll back time - Premium content

  Petrified jellyfish find wows palaeontologists.

  30 January 2002

• Moon mirrors life's colours - Premium content

  Scanning the heavens for hues like ours could reveal other living planets.

  29 January 2002

• Cylinders make circuits spontaneously - Premium content

  Carbon nanotubes assemble themselves into electronic grids.

  29 January 2002

• Wealth spawns corruption - Premium content

  Physicists are explaining how politics can create the super-rich.

  28 January 2002

• Sequential fragmentation: the origin of columnar quasihexagonal patterns - Premium content

  Ireland's huge hexagonal columns are a natural consequence of lava cooling.

  28 January 2002