Finishing Harpers Findings

Researchers were building robot nanoworms, designed to seek out and kill cancer cells, and swarms of robot dragonflies for the U.S. military. South Korean customs authorities began training seven clones of Chase, their pre-eminent sniffer dog, and Sri Lankan researchers announced success in teaching mongoose-robot teams to detect land mines. Bornean orangutans, said naturalists, have learned to swim and spearfish. The Earl of Cranbrook put forth that Borneo's iconic pygmy elephants are actually an alien species introduced to the island centuries ago by the Sultan of Sulu. Thai doctors were unable to verify whether nang bong caterpillars, which favor the leaves of the golden-shower tree, are an effective aphrodisiac, and Chinese zoologists found that exposure to cat urine makes male mice more aggressive and makes their urine more likely to attract females. South African scientists observed an Antarctic fur seal attempting to rape a king penguin.