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2,688 results for: Monkeys

  1. Tech

    Virtual reality has a motion sickness problem

    Virtual reality games and experiences can make some people sick, and women are more susceptible.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Being watched can boost productivity

    In the company of another, a monkey steps up production on a simple job.

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  3. Science & Society

    What’s ahead for science in 2017?

    Science News writers reveal what they are watching for — and hoping for — in the year ahead.

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  4. Anthropology

    Tooth, jaw fossils tell tale of North America’s last nonhuman primates

    Oregon fossils provide new clues to North America’s last nonhuman primates.

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  5. Neuroscience

    1960s dog brain transplant was not followed by human studies

    A pioneering study to transplant a dog’s brain led to later work on a monkey, but ethical considerations and technical know-how have prevented further work.

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  6. Animals

    Chimps get buzzed on fermented tree sap

    Scientists have documented the first case of chimpanzees drinking ethanol in the wild.

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  7. Neuroscience

    Brain cells predict opponent’s move in game-playing monkeys

    Newly discovered brain cells help monkeys predict whether a companion will cooperate.

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  8. Genetics

    Muscle-gene edit creates buff beagles

    Gene editing works at low efficiency in dogs.

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  9. Anthropology

    Petite primate fossil could upend ideas about ape evolution

    Ancient fossils suggest modern apes descended from a small, gibbonlike creature.

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  10. Paleontology

    Monkeys reached Americas about 36 million years ago

    Peruvian fossils suggest ancient African primates somehow crossed the Atlantic Ocean and gave rise to South American monkeys.

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  11. Psychology

    Quantity counts for baboons

    Counting-like logic helps baboons track and compare accumulating sets of peanuts.

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  12. Life

    The Monkey’s Voyage

    By 26 million years ago, the ancestors of today’s New World monkeys had arrived in South America. How those primates reached the continent is something of a conundrum.

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