News, August 2000

• Arctic plants can stand the heat - Premium content

  The ability of ecosystems to adapt to climate change is highlighted by recent findings from the frozen north.

  31 August 2000

• The A P C of raising an army - Premium content

  New research suggests that cells from cancer patients' immune systems can be harvested, made to multiply and re-injected to fight their own tumours.

  31 August 2000

• Design for living - Premium content

  Robots can design and build each other, and co-operate like ants. John Whitfield doesn't know whether to applaud or worry.

  31 August 2000

• Another bacterium gives up its genetic secrets - Premium content

  Standfirst.

  31 August 2000

• Tickling your fancy - Premium content

  Neuroscientists, Jessa Netting discovers, have proved what every 5-year-old knows: the threat of a tickle feels like the real thing.

  30 August 2000

• Augmenting the alphabet - Premium content

  Two new letters have been added to the genetic code, reports Philip Ball.

  30 August 2000

• A question of taste - Premium content

  Caffeine may put the pep in your Pepsi -- and many other soft drinks -- but it doesn't improve their flavour, as some manufacturers have claimed, Helen Gavaghan finds.

  30 August 2000

• Sniffing out the truth - Premium content

  Evidence that pheromones might influence human behaviour has been scant. Now researchers have identified what looks like a gene for a human receptor for a pheromone.

  29 August 2000

• Focus on organic food - Premium content

  David Adam wonders why more people are embracing organic food as 'healthy' and 'natural', despite the woolly 'scientific' claims often served with it.

  29 August 2000

• Herbal extracts help fight cancer - Premium content

  Extracts from some herbal remedies may make cancers more vulnerable to conventional chemotherapy drugs.

  25 August 2000