Kao, Boyle and Smith jointly awarded Nobel for PhysicsOctober 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Charles K. Kao, Willard S.
Aage Bohr, Danish Nobel prize winner, son of nuclear physics giant Niels Bohr, diesSeptember 10th, 2009 Denmark's Nobel prize winner Aage Bohr diesCOPENHAGEN — Aage Bohr, a nuclear physics professor and Nobel laureate like his famed father Niels Bohr, has died at age 87. Bohr in 1975 became the second Dane to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.
Chimps can "catch" yawn from yawning toonsSeptember 9th, 2009 LONDON - Yawning is so contagious that it can provoke teeth-baring yawns in chimpanzees, a new research has found. "Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and previous research has shown that chimps are not immune to its suggestive influence either.
Baby chimps better at controlling emotions than human babiesSeptember 7th, 2009 LONDON - When it comes to controlling emotions, baby chimps do it better than human babies, concludes a new study. The research, which investigated the facial expressions of young chimpanzees, may explain why some babies cry so much and are so inconsolable.
Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' may be trueAugust 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Aesop's fable about 'The Crow and the Pitcher', in which a crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst, may have been based on fact, according to a new study. Through a series of experiments, researchers have shown that rooks, birds belonging to the corvid (or crow) family, are able to solve complex problems using tools and can easily master the same technique demonstrated in Aesop's fable.
Aesop's fable about a thirsty crow might really have happened, British study suggestsAugust 6th, 2009 Bird experiment shows Aesop's fable may be trueNEW YORK — From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened.
Wild chimps found infected with AIDSJuly 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Although the AIDS virus (HIV-1) infected the human population through chimpanzees, scientists long believed that chimps didn't develop the disease. But new research reveals otherwise.
Like humans, chimps too focus on facesJuly 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Chimpanzees are wired to respond to faces in a similar manner to humans, suggests a new study in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology. To reach the conclusion, Masaki Tomonaga and Tomoko Imura from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan, tested the effects of a series of different images on chimps' reaction times.
'Missing link' seen in primate form of AIDS virus killing chimps; other apes unharmedJuly 22nd, 2009 Scientists find HIV's 'missing link' in ill chimpsWASHINGTON — Scientists believe they have found a "missing link" in the evolution of the virus that causes AIDS. It bridges the gap between the infection that does no harm to most monkeys and the one that kills millions of people.
Chimps can learn to make their own tools watching video demosJuly 1st, 2009 LONDON - St Andrews University researchers in Scotland have shown that chimpanzees can be learn how to make their own tools by watching demonstrations on video. For this work, the researchers trained a chimpanzee to make a long pole for prizing out-of-reach fruit from a tree, and then filmed the animal constructing the handy tool from a variety of different parts.
Chimps tend to remember the exact location of favourite fruit treesJune 9th, 2009 LONDON - Chimpanzees have an inherent spatial memory that makes them remember the exact location of all their favourite fruit trees, according to a study. In fact, primatologists have found that their spatial memory is so precise that they can find a single tree among more than 12,000 others within a patch of forest.
New radar mode to create clearer picture of devastating space weatherJune 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at the University of Leicester, UK, have developed a new radar mode that allow observations of space weather, which can have devastating impacts for technologies on earth. The researchers have implemented a "double pulse" radar-operating mode on two radars, which form part of a global network of ground based coherent scatter radars called SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network).
Sweet tooth drives chimps to develop own brand of toolkitsMay 31st, 2009 LONDON - Chimps are so nuts about honey that, even though they've no access to a hardware store, they construct their own brand of toolkits when foraging for snacks from beehives, a new study has found. A research team, which was led by Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, studied chimps living in Loango National Park in Gabon.
Crows can fashion a hook to get at foodMay 26th, 2009 LONDON - Rooks, a member of the crow family, are surprisingly innovative when it comes to searching food - they are not only capable of using tools but also making and modifying them for their use. "This finding is remarkable because rooks do not appear to use tools in the wild, yet they rival habitual tools users such as chimpanzees and New Caledonian crows when tested in captivity," said Chris Bird of Cambridge University, co-author of the study.
Wild female chimps trade sex for meatApril 8th, 2009 LONDON - Wild female chimps have sex more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to a German study. How females choose their mating partners and why males hunt and share meat with them are questions that have long puzzled scientists.
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