Researchers at Brown University have made the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable brain-computer interface. Humans might be next in line for testing of the device, after 13 months of successful trials in monkeys and pigs. Read More >>
Have you ever taken pictures at the zoo? It's an exercise in futility. Your puny camera strains to see far-away beasts with their backs turned. Lame. But what if you could get them to come right up to you? Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Check the video at 1:03 for an explanation (or excuse) for the video claiming gorillas but that does not excuse the article copying them." More »
Simple -- evolution of course. But new research now suggests that the reason humans and apes don’t look alike in the face is down to facial expressions. We have plain faces, without varying colour and with less hair poking out everywhere, because it helps us track the complex facial contortions we use for communication. Read More >>
Featured comment by Magic Robot:
"Maybe so... but I know people who look like furniture or cars even, Monkeys and Apes also. Remember Phil Cool?... he could do a very believable liknes..." More »
Problem: nobody knows just how bad the radioactive contamination is at Fukushima, nine months later. Prediction: still pretty bad. Solution: send in a bunch of monkeys armed with radiation meters and GPS collars, and hope for the best. Let's do it! Read More >>
Featured comment by JulianT:
"Have the Japanese government never seen a Godzilla movie?
Don't they realise that if the radiation does what it did to that iguana then they could en..." More »
Jesse Anderson developed a program that simulated a few million virtual monkeys randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters in an attempt to re-create Shakespeare. Amazingly, the monkeys (monkeys!) have managed to write 99.99% of Shakespeare's poem, A Lover's Complaint. Read More >>
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