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24 April 1999

Issue 2183

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Veterinary practices make perfect

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The spinners

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Firm forecast

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Supercell

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Lost for words

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Table of contents

News

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One in the eye for fish's victims

THE eyes of chameleons are no longer unique among vertebrates, say biologists who have found strikingly similar ocular abilities in a fish. Chameleons are renowned for their turret-like eyes which can move independently and judge depth by varying their focus. But Jack Pettigrew of the University of Queensland in Brisbane and his colleagues have found …

News

Holes together

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Twisted foe

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Sex pests

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Alien planets

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Fungus farmers

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X-ray delay?

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The good news…

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…and the bad

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Paradox lost

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Namibian bugs crash through the size barrier

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Bat alert

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Neutron star is caught blowing bubbles

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Alien invaders

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NASA's finest get wired for the night

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Flight of the soya bean

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Technology

Windows on privacy

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There's a storm brewing…

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Essence of chocolate

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Life and death vest

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For your eyes only

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Raring to go

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Smooth operator

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Shrink to fit

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Short, sharp shocks build micromachines

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Junk food

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A better way to leave this world

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Now you see it . . .

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Hunting the carriers

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Coral crumbles

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Blame your mother…

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Crash course

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Martian time

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Rice race

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In a jam

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Mind

On the right track

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Mind

Lights, sound, action!

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Mind

Seeing is believing

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Mind

All fired up

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Powered up

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Weather eyes

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Technology

Explosive deflection

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Technology

Cool sounds

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Technology

Watch my lips

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Clean burn

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Opinion

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That's entertainment!

"MAKE `EM LAUGH, make `em cry". That's the old Hollywood formula for creating a spectacular sell-out musical. What's that got to do with us? Well, surprisingly enough, many of the old Hollywood tricks—especially if you add "make `em shriek", "make `em gasp", "make `em faint dead away"—were to be seen the Edinburgh Science Festival over …

Opinion

The future is another country

Opinion

Features

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Veterinary practices make perfect

IT'S harder to get a place on a British university course to become a vet than on any other subject. Choose medicine and there are 4000 places to try for in numerous universities. Decide on a career in veterinary surgery and there are about 400 places in six universities. No wonder it is essential to …

Features

The spinners

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Firm forecast

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Supercell

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Lost for words

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Performing eggs

SOME scientists might consider inventing the birth control pill a lifetime achievement in itself. Not Carl Djerassi. Still restless after sparking the sexual revolution with his little hormone tablet he now weighs in on the drama and ethics behind assisted fertility. Immaculate Misconception—a stage version of an earlier novel, Menachem's Seed—is about a woman scientist …

Books & Arts

Aussie roobots kick goals in Japan

Forum

Grounds for war

Books & Arts

Going nowhere fast

Forum

Signs of the times

Forum

. . . . .

Forum

To the body shop

Books & Arts

A passionate man

Books & Arts

from San Franscisco

Books & Arts

Stealing beauty

Books & Arts

The dolphin way

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Count me in

Books & Arts

Hold on tight

Books & Arts

Get A life

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ALL THOSE stories about planes falling out of the sky when the millennium dawns are, of course, complete rubbish. We are quite sure that the airlines have done everything necessary to ensure their computers are millennium compliant and will switch over to the year 2000 with no problems. All the same, Feedback understands why Liam …

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