2,691 results
2,691 results for: Monkeys
- Health & Medicine
Loosen Up
Bacterial toxin may lead to less painful treatments for diabetes and brain cancer.
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Cries and Greetings
Baboon intimacy and detachment present vexing clues.
- Agriculture
Downtown Fisheries?
Advances may make fish farming a healthy prospect, even for inner cities.
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Human, Mouse, Rat . . . What’s Next?
Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.
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- Anthropology
Out on a Limb
The science of body development may make kindling out of evolutionary trees.
- Materials Science
Making Stuff Last
Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2000
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.
- Anthropology
Evolution’s Youth Movement
The fossils of ancient children may provide insights into the evolution of modern Homo sapiens.
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Faces of Perception
Scientists who study face perception currently disagree strongly over whether newborn babies innately know what human faces look like and whether certain brain areas are solely responsible for distinguishing one face from another.
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Joined at the Senses
As evidence accumulates for the existence of brain cells that handle many types of sensory information, some scientists challenge the popular notion that perception is grounded in five separate senses.
