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2,698 results for: Monkeys
- Health & Medicine
Antiviral Advance: Drug disables enzyme from hepatitis C virus
A new drug prevents the replication of the hepatitis C virus.
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- Anthropology
Anklebone kicks up primate debate
The discoverers of a roughly 40-million-year-old anklebone in Myanmar say that it supports the controversial theory that anthropoids, a primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans, originated in Asia.
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Protein Portal: Enzyme acts as door for the SARS virus
A protein that regulates blood pressure also serves as the cellular portal for the SARS virus.
- Paleontology
Fossil sheds light on early primates
Partial skeleton near root of monkey, ape and human line.
- Animals
Lemurs’ group size predicts social intelligence
Primates that live with many others know not to steal food when someone is watching.
- Life
A flash of light implants false memories in mice
Researchers alter rodents' recollections by exciting just a few neurons.
- Life
Evolution of mammalian monogamy remains mysterious
Two large studies reach opposing conclusions about why males stay with females.
- Health & Medicine
Space-mapping neurons found in human brain
Grid cells may orient people in Euclidean space.
- Neuroscience
Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains
When pregnant mice consumed caffeine, their offspring had altered neurons and faulty memory.
- Humans
From the May 10, 1930, issue
CANNON-BALL TREE The strange growth represented on the cover of this issue of the SCIENCE NEWS-LETTER is not a freak grapefruit tree. It is the normal method of flowering and fruiting of the cannon-ball tree, a member of the monkey-pot family found in the forests of South America. Its fruiting branches always grow out of […]
- Humans
From the August 9, 1930, issue
A FISH WITH HANDS A fish of more than ordinary piscine talent is sometimes found in the drifting masses of gulfweed or Sargassum in the great mid-Atlantic eddy. It is only a little fish, a couple of inches long, but it can use its two pectoral fins for some of the functions of hands. It […]
