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October 20, 2009
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Italian scientists study a certain type of monkey that they
say interacts with its babies a lot like a human does. Check
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NASA reschedules Ares I-X rollout
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA says it has rescheduled the move
of the Ares I-X rocket to its Kennedy Space Center launch pad
in preparation for its first test flight. The rocket is to be
moved from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad
39B beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The 4.2-mile journey
is expected to take about seven hours to complete. NASA said
it will provide live television coverage of the event begin-
ning at 11:45 p.m. Monday. The move was originally scheduled
for Monday morning, but during routine testing last week,
engineers detected a nitrogen gas leak that necessitated a
24-hour postponement. The space agency said officials were
assessing what effect, if any, the delayed rollout will have
on the rocket's targeted Oct. 27 initial launch. NASA Tele-
vision downlink information, schedules and links to streaming
video are available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
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Macaque interactions with newborns studied
PARMA, Italy - Italian scientists say they've discovered
mother macaques and their newborn infants have early inter-
actions that are similar to those of humans. "What does a
mother or father do when looking at their own baby?" asked
researcher Pier Francesco Ferrari of Italy's University of
Parma. "They smile at them and exaggerate their gestures,
modify their voice pitch -- the so-called 'motherese' -- and
kiss them. What we found in mother macaques is very similar:
They exaggerate their gestures, 'kiss' their baby and have
sustained mutual gaze." Ferrari also noted in humans, the
communicative interactions go both ways. Newborns are sensi-
tive to their mother's expressions, movements and voice, and
they also mutually engage their mothers and are capable of
emotional exchange. "For years, these capacities were consid-
ered to be basically unique to humans," the researchers said,
"although perhaps shared to some extent with chimpanzees."
They said their findings extend those social skills to maca-
ques, suggesting the infant monkeys may "have a rich internal
world" that we are only now beginning to see. "Our results
demonstrate that humans are not unique in showing emotional
communication between mother and infant," the researchers
wrote. "Instead, we can trace the evolutionary foundation of
those behaviors, which are considered crucial for the estab-
lishment of social exchange with others, to macaques." The
study appears in the online early edition of the journal
Current Biology.
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Evidence found of neotropical rainforest
WASHINGTON - U.S. scientists working in Colombia say they
have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical
rainforest. Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Re-
search Institute said the evidence of a rainforest that ex-
isted at temperatures up to 5 degrees Celsius higher than
rainforest conditions today suggests rainforests flourished
during warm periods. "Modern neotropical rainforests, with
their palms and spectacular flowering-plant diversity, seem
to have come into existence in the Paleocene epoch, shortly
after the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago,"
said Carlos Jaramillo, a Smithsonian staff scientist. "We
find new plant families, large, smooth-margined leaves and a
three-tiered structure of forest floor, understory shrubs and
high canopy." Scott Wing, a paleontologist from the Smith-
sonian's National Museum of Natural History, described the
evidence found in Colombia's Cerrejon mining operation as
"the first clear window we have to see back in time to the
Paleocene, when the neotropical rainforest was first devel-
oping." The research appears in the early online edition of
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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