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A spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. There are beautiful pictures at the source (if you are not an arachnophobe)Believed to be a new species in the genus Cyclosa, the arachnid crafts the larger spider from leaves, debris and dead insects. Though Cyclosa includes other ( Read more... )

The New York University School of Medicine is one of the top medical research colleges in the country. It hosts some of the top scholars in medicine, and Langone Medical Center is home to much of the school's research. Now much of that work is in jeopardy.

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Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California improved thinking and restored decision-making in five monkeys using an electrode array implanted into their prefrontal cortex-the area of the brain responsible for planning and decision-making.

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Wild lesula found in remote forests is only the second new monkey species to be discovered in Africa in 28 yearsA new species of monkey has been identified in Africa, only the second time such a discovery has been made on the continent in 28 years ( Read more... )

Jennifer Viegas, Why Dogs Really Do Feel Your Pain: Comforting Distressed Humans May Be Hardwired In Dogs' Brains, DiscoveryNews, August 31 2012 (Photos and Video at Source)
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Dogs may empathize with humans more than any other animal, including humans themselves, several new studies suggest.The latest research, published in the journal Animal ( Read more... )

Teams find cancerous lesions on the scales of about 15% of the coral trout in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is under an ozone hole.

If you're still skeptical that a tan can be dangerous, consider this: Scientists have found that wild fish are getting skin cancer from ultraviolet radiation.

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Scientists discover new species of 'blind snake' in Brazilian river that looks remarkably like a piece of the human anatomy (and stop sniggering)

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