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Do you think everyone takes things a little too seriously? You’re likely Gen X. You are fluent in sarcasm. When someone makes ...

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Around 450 squirrel-sized marmoset monkeys reside at Texas Biomed's primate center, aiding research on aging, health span and longevity.

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. says he wants to end monkey testing, a wish that could have dramatic consequences for SC ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence ...

So it was with Counterfeit Monkey's letter remover—a sort of linguistic edition of the sonic screwdriver. First I pulled a ...

Bones and tools found in a Sri Lankan cave show how Homo sapiens adapted to dense rainforest environments as early as 45,000 years ago.

For the study, the researchers worked with two adult male macaques that had previously been trained to tap in time with a metronome. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 With a ...