Let me out – It’s the fetus that decides when it’s time to be born. The mother is just obeying orders from her insatiable unborn baby. Garry Hamilton finds out how
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This week's magazine
10 January 1998
Issue 2116
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
David Jane: Inner visions
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On wings of light – Tiny spacecraft are flying through the atmosphere on beams of laser light. Leonard David reports on the start of a new age of cleaner, cheaper space flight
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See how they glow – What do you get if you cross a jellyfish, a human and a caterpillar? Bright green creepy crawlies stuffed full of life-giving drugs, says Eric Baehrecke
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Table of contents
News
Darwin’s paradise awash – El Ni帽o has brought heavy rains and warm waters that may change the Gal谩pagos forever
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Where am I? – Navigation satellites’ signals are vulnerable to jamming
News
Hidden flu?
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Seafood warning
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Net curtain
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How to get your hands on the world’s first computer – How to get your hands on the world’s first computer
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Putt it this way – Animation gives armchair golfers a place on the green
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Pee is for proteins
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Don’t shoot – In the heat of the battle quick decisions are vital
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Little chocaholics – Harmless microbes with a sweet tooth can make chocolate crack up
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Current events – Do tiny electrical signals herald an earthquake?
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Patents : Stetson hat tricks
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El Ni帽o puts a damper on stargazing
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Patents : Some like it hot
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Patents : Whodunnit?
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Food bug’s Latin link – Deadly E. coli strains may have come from South America
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Gene crop axed
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Riches spill from Davy Jones’s locker
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The turn of the worm – First it was rabies. Now foxes are spreading a deadly parasite
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Smart cattle nose ahead
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This won’t hurt a bit – The dentist’s drill is being ousted by a remarkable red gel
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In a spin on discs – A battle over DVD standards is leaving customers confused
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Technofile : Mighty disc
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Technofile : Swift treatment
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Technofile : Ebola vaccine
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Technofile : In a flash
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Fever outbreak follows Kenyan rains
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Boom and nearly bust – Concorde came much closer to being cancelled than we thought
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Prime suspects – Could the glow of atoms spell defeat for data security?
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Funny old bird
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Brief encounters – Clumpy gas between stars would make any signals from ET fleetingly short
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How body snatchers put a stop to sex
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Focus : Dying for an answer
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Netropolitan : The truth will out
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Netropolitan :
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Why Vegas is America’s suicide capital
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Nerves of the Pharaohs – What can a dried-out old corpse teach modern doctors?
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In brief : Is that you mother?
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In brief : Age before beauty
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In brief : Dreamland
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In brief : Getting warm
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In brief : Smoking gap
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In brief : A star’s best friend
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Opinion
Features
Let me out – It’s the fetus that decides when it’s time to be born. The mother is just obeying orders from her insatiable unborn baby. Garry Hamilton finds out how
Features
Health
David Jane: Inner visions
Features
On wings of light – Tiny spacecraft are flying through the atmosphere on beams of laser light. Leonard David reports on the start of a new age of cleaner, cheaper space flight
Features
See how they glow – What do you get if you cross a jellyfish, a human and a caterpillar? Bright green creepy crawlies stuffed full of life-giving drugs, says Eric Baehrecke
Features
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Antipodes : The good oil gives locust protection for crops
Review : How not to do it
Books & Arts
Review : Born to sum
Books & Arts
Review : Trials of life
Books & Arts
Review : Gay histories
Books & Arts
Review : Many voices
Books & Arts
Review : Fast flow
Books & Arts
Review : Atomic views
Books & Arts
Review : Blinded by dust
Books & Arts
Review : Part work
Books & Arts
Review : The drying of America
Books & Arts
Review : Gene genie
Books & Arts
Bestsellers : from Oxford
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works – Edward James on science fiction giants and their imitators
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