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On Wednesday, over forty monkeys escaped from a facility in South Carolina, with none of them being captured so far.

Science & Energy

Police Warn Residents to Lock Down Houses as Dozens of Monkeys Escape Research Facility

By Frank Landymore

The first person to ever get a Neuralink transplant previously had questions about the company — but his concerns, apparently, were quelled.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Told Its First Human Patient Not to Worry About Those Gruesome Monkey Deaths

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip into a human subject — which is freaky given what happened to all those monkeys.

Prosthetics and Devices

Here’s What Happened to Monkeys That Got the Neuralink Implant

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investigation by Wired reveals the grisly complications of Neuralink brain implants in monkeys, including brain swelling and paralysis.

Prosthetics and Devices

Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records

By Frank Landymore

Strange things were certainly afoot this weekend, with zookeepers in Dallas and Louisiana announcing separate incidents of monkey theft.

It Was a Very Bad Weekend for Monkeys Being Stolen From Zoos, Apparently

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The meal kit subscription service HelloFresh has been accused of using monkey labor in Thailand to source its coconut milk.

Science & Energy

Meal Kit Giant Accused of Using Monkey Labor to Source Coconut Milk

By Noor Al-Sibai

China Plans to Send Monkeys to Space Station to Have Sex With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

UC Davis is refusing to release a cache of grisly photos of the monkeys injured during experiments testing Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant technology.

Battle Erupts Over Alleged Grisly Photos of Brain-Hacked Neuralink Monkeys

By Noor Al-Sibai

Citizens living in the southwestern Japanese city of Yamaguchi have found themselves besieged by violent gangs of macaque monkeys.

Science & Energy

Japanese City Terrorized By Furious Baby-Snatching Monkeys

By Frank Landymore

The three monkeys were recaptured on Saturday evening before being euthanized. The CDC didn't clarify why they were put down.

Science & Energy

Scientists Recapture Escaped Lab Monkeys and Kill Them for Some Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, an international team of scientists have created chimera embryos that are made up of both human and monkey cells, as NPR reports.

Science & Energy

For First Time Ever, Scientists Create Part-Human, Part-Monkey Embryos

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Neuralink has shown off an impressive new feat: a nine year old macaque called Pager playing a game of pong only using the signals in its brain.

Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Releases Video of Monkey Playing Pong With Its Mind

By Victor Tangermann

NASA euthanized all 27 of its primates at the agency's Ames research center in California in February 2019, The Guardian reports.

NASA Killed All Its Monkeys on the Same Day, Investigation Reveals

By Victor Tangermann

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

Science & Energy

Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

By Kristin Houser