NASA’s early monkey experiments aimed to study how mammals handle space travel. Some primates exhibited surprising adaptability, adjusting their movements and physiology to microgravity conditions.

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A database about monkey behavior reveals how science is evolving toward a more open, collaborative approach. MacaqueNet ...

The settlement comes after a years-long struggle between PETA and UMass over the use of animal subjects in university research, including a protest with Massachusetts-born actor Casey Affleck.

Colleagues say Santos has a talent for thinking like a monkey. Her experiments cleverly elicit and exploit primates' natural gifts for competitiveness, stealthiness, hoarding and deceit.

On October 23, 1923, Hinton—a patent attorney—was awarded the first of a series of U.S. patents for his “jungle gym,” and the monkey bars were born. These days, hardly anyone is aware of ...

In a small country town east of Melbourne, monkeys are bred in a university laboratory and used for experiments to improve health and medical outcomes for people around the world. Warning ...

The animals underwent potentially painful procedures with anesthesia and analgesia provided during a 22-week experiment. But the USDA found ... a species of Old World monkey, without approval from the ...