August 2002

• Cold water thrown on warm ups - Premium content

  Stretching your muscles doesn't make them any more resilient.

  30 August 2002

• Identification of a potential ejaculation generator in the spinal cord - Premium content

  Rat study shows spinal-cord neurons control ejaculation.

  30 August 2002

• Planets were precocious - Premium content

  Earth and Mars were born 20 million years earlier than thought.

  29 August 2002

• Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water - Premium content

  Platinum extracts green fuel from glucose.

  29 August 2002

• Sparrows starve in winter - Premium content

  Agricultural changes probably lie behind bird's decline.

  29 August 2002

• Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae - Premium content

  Geckos' hairy grip inspires adhesive research.

  28 August 2002

• Bee farms honey and wax - Premium content

  Amazonian bee tends insects for food and board.

  28 August 2002

• Celebrity geese halved - Premium content

  Two radio-tagged migrants shot, one nibbled.

  28 August 2002

• Irrigation moves rain - Premium content

  Ditches shift storms on the parched Texas High Plains.

  26 August 2002

• Life preserver floods cancers - Premium content

  Cancer cells let telomerase loose.

  26 August 2002