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Letters from the January 19, 2008, issue of Science News

Evening the score When Ai, mother of the chimp Amuyu, whose mental feats you reported in “Chimp Champ: Ape aces memory test, outscores people” (SN: 12/8/07, p. 355), appeared in a television documentary a few years ago, I reproduced for myself the number-sequence test she performed and found that, after practice, I could easily outperform […]

Tech

Retro RAM

A prototype memory chip stores data bits using carbon nanotubes as mechanical switches.

Health & Medicine

Night lights may foster cancer

Regularly working through the night appears to come at a steep cost—a heightened risk of cancer.