News, November 2000

• Bugs for toxic clean-up - Premium content

  Paint, polish and glue make tasty snacks for new bacteria. .

  30 November 2000

• Ebola vaccine hope - Premium content

  The first vaccine to protect primates from Ebola virus offers hope for a human version, Valerie Depraetere reports. .

  30 November 2000

• Buckyball superconductors hot up - Premium content

  The carbon football could become the hottest of superconductors, reports Philip Ball. .

  30 November 2000

• New ways to predict quakes - Premium content

  Earthquake prediction has the reputation of a black art. Philip Ball looks at three new studies that are trying to make it a science. .

  29 November 2000

• Stars run away for two reasons - Premium content

  A new study finds that two old theories of why stars hurtle through the heavens are both right. .

  29 November 2000

• Evolution throws up new drugs - Premium content

  Chemistry is aping biology in the search for new antibiotics.

  28 November 2000

• Brain goes on the blink - Premium content

  There is more to a blink than meets the eye, Jessa Netting finds. .

  27 November 2000

• End not nigh - Premium content

  Fears that the end of the world might be hatched in a particle accelerator are unwarranted, explains Philip Ball. .

  27 November 2000

• Longer lasting hips? - Premium content

  A new composite ceramic could extend the lifetime of artificial hip implants. .

  24 November 2000

• Falcons spiral in for the kill - Premium content

  Sideways vision means there is more to the prey-plucking plummet of a peregrine falcon than meets the eye.

  24 November 2000