Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, have the potential of tackling various real-world tasks ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

I was a human experiment. It sounds a bit morbid in a B-movie sort of way, but by signing up to become part of a test panel to examine the herb ginko bilboa's effectiveness for memory enhancement, I ...

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever.

Imagine standing at the laboratory bench, working on an experiment, when, as you finish one step, a display on the inside of your lab goggles tells you what to do next. Before you can make the ...

Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various obstructions. It’s one of several variations on classic computational ...