July 23, 2007Chimps on treadmills may help explain why human ancestors evolved into bipeds 10 million years ago.Images: Humans vs. chimps at the gymTAGS:leg, energy, treadmill, human, researcher, patch management
September 21, 2005Mike Merzenich, a neuroscientist, investigates whether intelligence in the Internet age is really on the upswing.TAGS:intelligence, brain, human, scientist, TV
September 9, 2007Technologists and investors gather at the Singularity Summit to discuss what to do in the event that machines one day outthink humans.TAGS:human, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco
June 5, 2006You may not eat figs on a daily basis today, but 11,000 years ago it was the hot new food--and may have been a first step toward modern agriculture.TAGS:crop, human, Middle East, food, professor
November 16, 2005A growing number of Web sites are implementing tagging systems as a way to bring order and organization to information.TAGS:tagging, folksonomy, Flickr, human, search engine, blog
April 12, 2005Theologian Anne Foerst says we're a lonely species, and robots have a lot to teach us about who we are.TAGS:ambiguity, robot, human, researcher
July 2, 2003Advocates for the visually impaired contend that increasingly popular "visual verification" tests are discriminatory, raising a cloud over the future of a widely used antispam tool.TAGS:VeriSign Inc., human, bot, spam, database, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., e-mail
April 10, 2007Start-up Anybots sees a day when robots will do many things that humans now do. For now, though, they're just working on staying upright.Photos: Meet Dexter and Monty, the AnybotsVideo: Humanoid ro...TAGS:robot, robotics, iRobot Roomba, human, researcher, work, video
October 10, 2005The wisecracking robot from "Lost in Space" won't go on a mission soon, but you could see vinelike creepers and a two-handed helper. Photo: A new NASA space 'botTAGS:robot, flight, Segway, human, leg, agency, light-emitting diode, camera
July 28, 2005During an eight-day stay at the International Space Station, Discovery will contribute to a study on sustained human life in outer space.
Photos: Hotel for space travelersTAGS:crew, exploration, human, station, object-oriented, flight, space, researcher