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  1. Wasps: Mom doesn’t like you best

    Female wasps that found a colony together show no favoritism toward their own offspring when the adults feed larvae.

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  2. Excuse me, dear, which octopus are you?

    Male blue-ringed octopuses get pretty far along in their courtship before they determine whether their partner is a female.

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  3. How butterflies can eat cyanide

    Some newly recognized chemical wizardry lets some Heliconius caterpillars thrive on leaves that defend themselves with cyanide.

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  4. Astronomy

    Astronomers get radio protection

    Astronomers studying the universe at millimeter-wave energies-the high-frequency portion of the radio spectrum-were given an official guarantee last month that commercial satellites and other communication devices won't interfere with the scientists' observations.