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27 March 1999

Issue 2179

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Beware! High-speed yoghurt at work

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Hole in one

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Pump up the volume

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Lair of the sea dragon

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News

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Wanna fight?

WIDE eyes can be a fearsome sight for competing stalk-eyed flies, allowing weedy males to scare off more beefy rivals. Males of many species look for indicators of each other's strength to avoid engaging in hopeless fights. Male stalk-eyed flies with long eye stalks usually have big bodies, but biologists Tami Panhuis and Gerald Wilkinson …

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Crystal moulds

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Cuba's secret

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Digging a hole

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HIV heresy

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The camera lies

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Keep the ban

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Technology

Millennial maternity

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Changing stations

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Star Wars returns

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Snakes use night sights to stalk their prey

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Caught in the act

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Heartburn link

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Cold burn takes sting out of bioweapons

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It's got to go

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Life

Half and half

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Cutting off a tumour's energy supply

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You've got post

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Spill-proof keyboard

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Lara lives

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Built by bugs

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Go for meltdown

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A clean sweep

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Why your brain is primed for a high

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Bring your own

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Remember, remember

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Fast foresight

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Ant fever

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Tiny wonders

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Let them smoke pot

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Sea change

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A robot that knows its place

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Off-piste winner

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Technology

Video the radio

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Technology

Cooking up a storm

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Technology

Pet shop toys

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Lost without it

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Flying blind

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Disturbing trend

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Double trouble

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Jukebox rebellion

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Never say die

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Freeze! Gene police!

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Opinion

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Night of the Living Nanobe

JUST how strange can life be? Take the "nanobes" which are currently being investigated at the University of Queensland (see p 13) . They were found in rock more than three kilometres beneath the Earth's surface, are smaller than any creature ever seen before, and appear to have come back to life after millions of …

Opinion

The time is now

Opinion

Features

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Beware! High-speed yoghurt at work

GUY DIMONTE is preparing to turn gravity upside down. This feat will be achieved inside a transparent acrylic container the size of a small fish tank. And even though it will all be over in a blink of an eye, 40 cameras will be ready to record the event for posterity. Dimonte, who works at …

Features

Hole in one

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Pump up the volume

Features

Lair of the sea dragon

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It pays to know your worth

Graduates in science and engineering, starting their careers in research and development and other technical roles, are earning median salaries of £17 250, according to a report from the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), Warwick. Those with qualifications in information technology and computer science are earning £17 500. Demand for these graduates is high. One …

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Two bytes of the cherry blossom

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Mission improbable

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Play's the thing

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I wanna fly away

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No no nano

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A quiet life

Books & Arts

from Washington

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Yum, yum, yum

Books & Arts

Bang on target

Books & Arts

Here's looking at you

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Biotech's bitter fruit

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Tissue of lies

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

INTREPID researchers are constantly finding differences in how men and women respond to everything from drugs to exercise. Now James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, reports that the sexes respond differently to onhold music. Kellaris tested 41 men and 30 women, letting them think they were trying to reach a …

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