The "Blue Brain" project is underway to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain!

Meanwhile, scientists report that dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor.

In the lab, seven capuchin monkeys have been taught to use money. And in another monkey study, rhesus monkeys were found to match the number of voices they heard to the number of faces they expected to see.