Female northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) holding a mouse at the Shanghai Zoo, China. Cyril Grueter, Author provided (no reuse) The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was ...

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As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study looks at genetic evidence to suggest that Colombia’s Magdalena River, and not the Andean massif, may be the true boundary separating ...

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MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): You know, it's not really tasteful to put Black people's faces on monkeys. I certainly agree with that. So I don't think he did this intentionally. I don't think he posted this ...