April 2004

• Combat raises risk of rare disorder - Premium content

  Chemical cause sought for damage to soldiers' nerves.

  30 April 2004

• Desert gerbils signal plague - Premium content

  Rodent numbers could predict human disease.

  30 April 2004

• Uganda's HIV epidemic wanes - Premium content

  Word of mouth leads to safer sex.

  30 April 2004

• Earliest fire sheds light on hominids - Premium content

  Ancient hearths unveiled as nearly 800 millennia old.

  30 April 2004

• Brownfields get muck makeover - Premium content

  Sewage and rubble offer way to reuse land.

  29 April 2004

• Double vision - Premium content

  Hollywood grapples with human cloning.

  29 April 2004

• Could nanomachines be tomorrow's doctors? - Premium content

  DNA computer diagnoses disease and dispenses drug.

  29 April 2004

• Return of the snakehead - Premium content

  Fishy predator gets its teeth into ancient climate history.

  29 April 2004

• Business goes quantum - Premium content

  Money changes hands in key bank transaction.

  29 April 2004

• Mineral brew grows 'cells' - Premium content

  A mixture of simple chemicals produces fungus-like structure.

  28 April 2004