“They’re professionals, and here comes this army of nerds bashing down the doors.”
James Frew of the University of California, Santa Barbara, on the reaction of US coastguards to friends and colleagues of Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who went missing on a sailing trip on 28 January, using their computer skills to help find him (The New York Times, 3 February)
“More female partners leads to fatigue in males and smaller sperm packages. Unfortunately, the female butterflies know. This makes them more rampant.”
Sylvain Charlat of University College London on how the sexual behaviour of Hypolimnas bolina butterflies changes…
