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For the first time since the early days of the space program, in the early 1950s, the American space agency, NASA, will be conducting a series of tests on monkeys. The goal of the experiments will be to test and see whether their complex physiology, which is very similar to our own, could endure the rigors of a long-... |
20 November 2009
01:46 GMT |
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Humans are one of the few species of animals that can sense and protest to injustice. For a long time, our self-righteousness made us believe that we were the only ones able to do this. We also considered ourselves as the only ones capable of feelings and altruistic behavior, but that too was proven false. Now, anoth... |
12 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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In a new set of studies, researchers have demonstrated that the suspicions we show towards distorted faces and unconventional looks may actually be something that is rooted in our DNA. Additionally, the same investigations have also discovered that the trait might have evolved further back in the past than first pred... |
9 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives are made possible, and so much easier, by the precise control that we have over our mundane activities, such as eating, driving a car, or playing an instrument. All of these actions require precise timing and coordination, yet the mechanisms underlying this ability are ve... |
20 October 2009
21:11 GMT |
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Macaque monkeys revealed a new way of interpreting the origins of music and language when scientists discovered that, when the primates drum on trees or logs, the same neural network involved in communicating is activated. This find seems to suggest that, in primates, the vocal and nonvocal communication systems may ... |
17 October 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Washington in Seattle have recently announced the first successful treatment of color blindness using gene therapy, in squirrel monkeys. The method has been applied on animals that were born with the condition, not that developed it over the course of their lifetimes. The new research bri... |
17 September 2009
01:30 GMT |
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Figuring out the differences between orangutans, chimpanzees and humans is not a complex process in itself. Any person given a photo of the primates, and one of a human, could easily point out at least a few dozen of them. But the mystery of what made us uniquely human after we became separated from primates evolutio... |
2 September 2009
09:02 GMT |
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People are, consciously or unconsciously, influenced a great deal by the music they listen to, be it happy, sad, jumpy, depressive, or mellow. Their response is almost immediate, and researchers have been curious to know exactly where this habit originated from for a long time. However, investigating this proved to b... |
2 September 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Anthropologists have for a long time suspected that behavioral mimicking is a type of behavior that appeared in humans in order to facilitate the formation of bonds and friendships between total strangers. This conclusion was reached after studies indicated that certain people tend to imitate the body postures or man... |
14 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A new study from experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Picower Institute for Learning and Memory shows that we may have more to learn from our successes than from our failures. The new research, conducted on monkeys, revealed that neurons in the brain involved in learning became a lot more fine-t... |
5 August 2009
03:49 GMT |
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While trotting happily through a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, naturalists stumbled upon a new species of monkeys, with an abnormally large tail, and a peculiar gray and dark brown coloring. Aside from its anthropological value, the find demonstrates again that new discoveries in this field of research are a... |
8 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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In an attempt to understand how humans, as a species, got their general intelligence, researchers at the Harvard University conducted a series of tests on the cotton-top tamarin primates, assessing each individual's ability to perform in them. The study revealed that the levels of cognition varied significantly ... |
17 June 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Recently, snopes received an e-mail from a person complaining about the fact that a Barnes and Nobles book retail shop featured a highly unusual and potentially racist book display. The layout comprised numerous books written by or about president Obama, and all of these volumes were carefully arranged so as to surro... |
28 February 2009
04:31 GMT |
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For quite a while now, some people with various degrees of vision loss claimed they could feel a certain object around them, even if they couldn't actually see it. This phenomenon was dubbed "blindsight" and doctors have been trying to find a reasonable, scientific explanation for it over the past few years. Now... |
15 October 2008
06:15 GMT |
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The number of chimpanzees in the populations living in Africa's Cote d'Ivoire has diminished by more than 90 percent over the past 18 years, when the last survey was conducted. Researchers analyzing them were stupefied of this find, as only one viable population of the West African chimpanzee subspecies is ... |
14 October 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Laika preceded the first manned spaceflight; why can't macaques preceed the first manned flight to Mars? According to Russian scientists, they can and they will. The first living being to the Martian system will most likely be a monkey, not a man. The reason is very simple and easy to guess; radiation poses too ... |
14 April 2008
10:14 GMT |
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