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  1. Animals

    Butterfly’s clock linked to compass

    The most detailed look yet at the monarch butterfly's daily rhythm keeper suggests it's closer to ancient forms than to the fruit fly's or mouse's inner clock.

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  2. Humans

    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 […]

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  3. Tech

    Retro RAM

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