I have about as much contact with real people as a solo monkey astronaut.Not surprisingly, everyone I talk to (computer voice and mailman included) thinks it would be so cool to work from home. You’d ...

So far, three monkeys have received the implant. Linked to a personal computer, the cursor control device “would work for anything you can do or you can imagine doing by pointing and clicking.

Their work, which was published in ... already knew how to move a cursor across a computer screen with a joystick. The researchers showed the monkeys several objects that looked identical on ...

and work to solve, a problem. Whereas monkeys can think on their feet, humans often become set in their ways and cling to inefficient strategies for problem solving, according to new research.