Photos tagged "humans"

The first trench-to-bench field guide for tracking wild primate infectious diseases provides integrated information that could help scientists identify infection patterns and prevent epidemics.

Pyramid Adventures-Shoot and transform the mummies back into humans. Take down bosses and don't let them kill you.

Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next 40 years.The merger of man and machine will result in a world with no distinction between the biological and the mechanical or physical and virtual reality.

When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This is easy, thanks to "feature binding" -- a process by which our brain combines all of the specific features of an object and gives us

On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?

Our impact on Earth's climate might be even more profound than we realise. Before we started pumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the planet was on the brink of entering a semi-permanent ice age, two researchers have proposed.