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  • Sunshade to look for distant life  Wednesday, 5 July 2006

    Dubbed the New World's Observer, Professor Cash's design would use a giant 45m (148ft) daisy-shaped, plastic shield in tandem with a powerful telescope, trailing 15,000km (9,300 miles) behind.

    The pair would orbit about a million miles (1.6 million km) from the Earth at a position known as a Lagrange point.

  • Impotency rub-on gel developed   Wednesday, 5 July 2006

    MED2002, is based on a compound called glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), which has been used to treat angina for the last 40 years. GTN is known to cause dilation of the arteries and increased blood flow.

  • Dolly outcome disappoints Wilmut   Wednesday, 5 July 2006

    The "copying" of farm animals in the UK has now ceased because of cut-backs in agricultural research.

    Professor Wilmut says the UK has once again failed to capitalise on a technology it pioneered.

  • Patients 'suffer extensive abuse'  Wednesday, 5 July 2006

    During the investigation, teams of inspectors found evidence of staff hitting, pushing, and dragging people who were supposed to be in their care.

  • Heat 'blocks body's pain signals'   Wednesday, 5 July 2006

    The heat doesn't just provide comfort and have a placebo effect. It actually deactivates the pain at a molecular level in much the same way as pharmaceutical painkillers work.



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  • R - Our intelligence people expect the huns to attack again.
    K - Are they sure ?
    R - Evidently! They just blew town.