March 2008

• Gold necklace reveals early 'bling'

  Oldest gold status symbols from Americas unearthed in Peru.

  31 March 2008

• Babies have an eye for statistics

  Infants intuitively understand probability.

  31 March 2008

• Whaling scene found in 3,000-year-old picture

  Arctic carving shows complexity of ancient hunting groups.

  31 March 2008

• Race-specific cancer mutation found

  Genetic mutation raises risk of colon cancer in Caucasians but not in Japanese.

  30 March 2008

• Shocks make plants produce more chemicals

  Reaction to electric stress leads to larger chemical yields.

  28 March 2008

• Solar flares set off sunquakes

  Outbursts on the Sun set the whole star shaking.

  28 March 2008

• Mathematicians rewarded for decoding symmetry

  Award goes to maths that tames wild shapes and houses the infinite.

  27 March 2008

• Shocking the nose into action

  An electric shock helps people to better discriminate between smells.

  27 March 2008

• The rapid evolution of tuatara

  Study of the 'living fossils' may challenge theory of rate of evolution in cold-blooded organisms.

  27 March 2008

• Prions picked up by tuning fork detector

  Tiny resonators might make for quick and early prion tests.

  27 March 2008