So you think you're smarter than a monkey? A new study from PLoS Biology suggests that monkeys can do math just as well as humans. One study showed that rhesus macaque monkeys performed nearly as well as college students with quick mental math while a study from Duke University found that chimpanzees actually did better than humans at a memory game. More at the full article.

Scientists and doctors alike are continuously looking for ways that'll improve the lives of paralyzed people.

In Neurosience 2007, a team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina put electrodes in the brains of two Rheses Macaques, more commonly known as Old World Monkeys, and analyzed the electrical signals that drive their legs. The full story after the jump!