September 2002

• Archer fish never look back - Premium content

  Even the best baseball players dither more than an archer fish.

  30 September 2002

• Cows' eyes betray stress - Premium content

  The whites of a cow's eyes could be a measure of its welfare.

  30 September 2002

• Big diamonds grown faster - Premium content

  Large, perfect crystals should broaden diamond's technological applications.

  30 September 2002

• Lab shrunk to a chip - Premium content

  Circuits that shunt liquids rather than electrical currents could soon screen chemicals.

  27 September 2002

• Genes caught skipping from bacteria to beetle - Premium content

  Tokyo team claims first direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer.

  27 September 2002

• More power to pedal pushers? - Premium content

  Revolutionary crank could speed cycling.

  27 September 2002

• Museum researchers go on display - Premium content

  Darwin Centre to show science in action.

  27 September 2002

• Generation next - Premium content

  Reproductive transplants push fertility frontiers.

  27 September 2002

• Vegetal vampires stalk South America - Premium content

  If you go down to the woods today beware of thieving flowers.

  26 September 2002

• Physicist found guilty of misconduct - Premium content

  Bell Labs dismisses young nanotechnologist for falsifying data.

  26 September 2002