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1,437 results for: Primates

  1. Neuroscience

    To study attention, pay attention to bats

    Studying how bats’ brains find prey using echolocation could have implications for the way human brains pay attention.

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  2. Animals

    That stinky gorilla may be trying to say something

    Scientists have found the first evidence of wild gorillas communicating by scent.

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  3. Animals

    Octomom and six other extreme animal parents

    The octopus that brooded her young for 4.5 years is just the start when it comes to tales of extreme parenting.

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  4. Animals

    Elephant shrews are, oddly, related to actual elephants

    A new species in the group is the smallest yet, with adults smaller than a newborn kitten.

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  5. Life

    Evolution of mammalian monogamy remains mysterious

    Two large studies reach opposing conclusions about why males stay with females.

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  6. Life

    Starchy foods more filling than fiber, lab tests suggest

    Tests of gut microbe digestion of potato starch and fiber suggest that moving away from grass-heavy ancestral diets may not be the reason for obesity epidemic.

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  7. Life

    For yeast life span, calorie restriction may be a wash

    A new technique for growing and tracking yeast cells finds caloric restriction doesn’t lengthen life span, though some researchers question the study method.

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  8. Genetics

    How to rewire the eye

    The cutting-edge technology called optogenetics may offer a workaround to partially restore vision even after the retina’s light-sensing rods and cones die.

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  9. Animals

    Chimps catch people’s yawns in sign of flexible empathy

    Chimpanzees may show humanlike empathy, as evidenced by their contagious yawning.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Chikungunya is on the move

    The chikungunya virus, which wreaks havoc on joints, has spread via mosquitoes in tropical regions. Now it has found a way to hijack a second mosquito, posing a threat to people in Europe, North America and China.

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  11. Life

    Animal source of Ebola outbreak eludes scientists

    Researchers are trying to determine whether bats or bush meat transmitted the Ebola virus to people in West Africa.

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  12. Genetics

    Chimp and human lineages may have split twice as long ago as thought

    New estimates of chimpanzee mutation rates suggest humans and chimps last shared a common ancestor 13 million years ago.

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