An eight-year-old orangutan named Sinta kisses her newborn baby on Sunday at the Prigen Safari Park in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. “Sinta” means “love and affection” in Bahasa, the official language of Sumatra.
Sumatran orangs are highly endangered and may become extinct in the wild within the next decade.

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Rhesus monkeys are all over the news this week; first, following the birth of Brenda, the first primate to be born as the result of an ovarian tissue transplant.
Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center took tissue from rhesus ovaries, implanted the tissue into the animal’s arm, abdomen or kidney, and gave the monkeys [...]

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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is this stunning new Hubble shot of the variable star V838 Monocerotis.
Astronomers have been watching the star carefully for two years, ever since the red supergiant gave off a flashbulb-like pulse, illuminating the six light-year wide dust cloud that surrounds it.
Some people say the image reminds them of Vincent [...]

A mysterious emerging virus apparently protects against infection and death from AIDS.
The New Scientist reports that patients infected with both HIV and a second virus, GBC-V, are three times less likely to die from AIDS than other HIV-positive patients.
The GBC-V virus is related to hepatitis C, and was once thought to cause liver damage, [...]