Scientists once thought that planning required a primate brain. Experiments with birds are now proving that assumption wrong.

China’s latest neuromorphic project has pushed a once speculative idea into the realm of claimed reality: a monkey’s brain activity, recreated inside a supercomputer. The country’s researchers say ...

More than 380 researchers signed a Feb. 8 letter asking the National Institutes of Health to stop funding nonhuman primate experiments at Harvard Medical School. The letter opposes research with ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

Nonhuman primates are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, ...