In the first real-world demonstration of the technique, entangled photons are used to create an unbreakable communications code

Victims of animal rights fanatics band together to lobby that the UK government puts a stop to violence and intimidation

The Kaidun meteorite is like no other, including minerals never seen before, but the Red Planet's moon Phobos could provide an explanation

Powerful magnetic pulses from a particle accelerator revealed an upper limit for writing magnetic information

The card packs a microphone, a loudspeaker, a battery and a voice-recognition chip, rendering stolen cards useless

The mouse is the daughter of two female parents, but experts are sceptical that the technique could help two women have a biological child

Experts say the flaw could be exploited to knock out the machines that direct traffic between computer networks on the internet

The NASA spacecraft blasts off successfully and starts gearing up for an exquisitely precise test of Einstein's theory of gravity

The world's first conviction using "familial searching" to track a suspect via a relative's DNA is made in the UK

Doubling the length of missions would allow Russia's cash-strapped agency to sell extra spacecraft seats to space tourists - but NASA has safety concerns

The database links over 20,000 genes - about two-thirds of the total - to biological data on the genes' functions, promising deeper insight into disease

Classic audio preserved only on old records could be saved using technology developed to help discover sub-atomic particles

Giving supplements to women who are iron deficient, even only modestly, dramatically improves attention and memory, suggest new findings

A new study provides the first solid evidence that creatures from turtles to sea urchins are getting more diseases, more often

Molecules that bind to targets within cells, not their surface, could lead to new treatments for diseases, a biotech company claims

The latest report on progress says the agency is still on schedule, but in-orbit inspections and management reforms remain as challenges

Film subtitles that can be tailored to suit small sections of an audience could go on general release at the end of 2004

The globules, ejected from nuclear-powered Soviet satellites, are revealed as an unexpected danger to satellites and the shuttle

Pacific island nations may give citizens legal control of their seas, in the hope that traditional knowledge and customs can protect fish stocks

Gene expression in worms, bacteria that turn excrement into electricity and a human lab rat all feature in the short programme

Early humans strung shells together at least 75,000 years ago, suggesting advanced concepts of symbolism already existed

The high capacity DVD will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly, say it developers, and can be cut up when no longer needed

The retailer's Google-based service gives users added extras, but it also keeps a log of their searching and web browsing

Even plunging a laptop into the liquid fails to damage it and books also emerge similarly unscathed

Stimulating the sacral nerve in the lower back could help people who cannot control their bowels, suggests a new study

A catastrophic deep freeze triggered by global warming features in both a new blockbuster movie and a controversial report to the US military

Astronomers say it is a victory for the controversial technique, which can detect invisible planets circling distant, invisible stars

If confirmed, our Universe is curved like a Pringle potato chip, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character

Hubble images of the most distant Solar System object ever spotted are perplexing astronomers by suggesting Sedna has no moon

A large trial proves it can help prevent the horror of patients feeling pain while being paralysed by anaesthetics

Girl chimps are faster and smarter at getting to grips with tools used to eat termites, echoing learning differences in human children

Stars that bulk up by crashing into other stars could become the middleweight black holes that have so tantalised astronomers