New research has discovered that monkeys use play to avoid conflict and reduce group tension. The study found that adult howler monkeys spend more time playing with other adults, rather than juveniles ...

In August 2020, Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s first generation implantable “Fitbit” for the brain with a trio of cyborg pigs. Now, nine months later, the neurotechnology company headed by the ...

When people play their funky music for cotton-top tamarins, the monkeys hardly get their groove on. But playing monkey music does the trick. Cello music that mimics tamarin calls seems to bring forth ...

Elon Musk says his brain-implant firm Neuralink has equipped a monkey to play video games with its mind. The world’s richest man touted the achievement in an early-morning interview on the ...

Newly discovered brain cells in monkeys can predict another monkey’s actions in a cooperation game. If such brain cells also exist in humans, they may be important in social interactions that require ...

Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink released a video showing a monkey using its device to play “Pong” with its mind. Neuralink called the experiment an “initial demonstration of the potential ...

Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. Now ...

New research has discovered that adult howler monkeys use play to avoid conflict and reduce group tension, with levels of play increasing when they are faced with scarce resources. The researchers ...