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In an announcement that would amaze any wild-eyed science enthusiast, astronomers in New Zealand and Japan have just announced the existence of planets wandering about the cosmos without orbiting a star. Their discovery published in Nature predicts that these rogue planets may even be more numerous than ones positioned in structured solar systems like our own.
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Monkey news: chimp babies are born facing the same direction as human babies, that is, backward relative to the mother.
This is big monkey news, reported by Nature.
Somehow, researchers hadn't seen chimps giving birth before. Unlike humans, chimp mothers go off by themselves when they give birth. But a team in Japan slept in the chimp cages long enough to gain their trust and be allowed to see the births.
And while most primates give birth to offspring that face the same way as the ...