Two primates have learned to feed themselves with a robotic arm by controlling it with signals from their brains. The success boosts hopes for mind-controlled robotic prosthetics that may help disabled humans achieve some mobility.
Monkeys have been able to control robotic limbs using only their thoughts, scientists report.
The animals were able to feed themselves using prosthetic arms, which were controlled by brain activity.
Small probes, the width of a human hair, were in
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering a million-dollar prize for the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." "In vitro" and "test-tube grown" are n
Those battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls "a silent
Although the impact on deforestation and bio-diversity has been immense, the palm oil industries in Malaysia and Indonesia have become vital to their respective economies. Such is their importance that a new approach has been called for in
So a team of scientists led by Kim Wallen of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia decided to offer typical "male" and "female" toys to rhesus monkeys to see if preferences aligned with sex.
Bit by bit, in ingenious experiments, researchers have documented these talents in other species, gradually chipping away at what we thought made human beings distinctive while offering a glimpse of where our own abilities came from.
It's been 30,000 years since Neanderthals walked the earth, but now we can hear what they sounded like, according to a Florida anthropologist. Plan is to eventually simulate an entire Neanderthal sentence
The first draft of a book which changed the world's attitude to evolution is available for the first time online. This will be of major importance to scholars.
