Penguin harmonics IMAGINE trying to hear your mother's voice in a crowd of a million shouting people. This is the task facing king penguin chicks. But mum's calls are cleverly designed to help junior. Adult king penguins make a series of four to eight calls, which each go from loud to soft and are composed of numerous … 51¶¯Âþ
Humans Westminster diary THE LORD Dowding Fund for Humane Research has written to all MPs about its proposals to the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures. It wants a national centre which will coordinate the development of ways of replacing animals in research and testing. The Lords gave the idea their blessing in general … Opinion
The poet and the pox Over the next few weeks a million Americans will be vaccinated against smallpox, a disease that was driven from the face of the Earth more than two decades ago. Smallpox was defeated by a global programme of vaccination. But fears that samples of virus held in labs in the US and Russia might have fallen … Features
Nora Volkow Psychiatrist Nora Volkow at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York pioneers brain imaging to investigate the effects of drug addiction on the brain. She's a fan of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami and has just finished After the Quake (Harvill, 2002), a story of lives affected by the Kobe earthquake. Volkow also enjoyed Murakami's non-fiction account … Books & Arts
Feedback THE BBC recently had to ask private collectors for help in finding lost TV treasures. Music programmes and comedy classics – like the best of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – were all lost when the BBC had economy drives in the 1970s and erased recordings and threw out rolls of film. Turning a blind … Regulars