The pair built a human-powered helicopter that claimed an elusive $250,000 prize They also designed perhaps the first flapping-wing aircraft to sustain flight The two spoke in October at the ...

We will assume you’ve seen The Matrix — it was from 1999, after all. The surprise, at the end, was that humans were being used as human batteries to power a civilization of intelligent machines.

My guess is that we’ll have affordable¹ human-power computers in another decade or so, but it will still be two or three decades before we get true AI. Needless to say, ...

Human-powered airplanes have been built before, certainly, and to amazing success. The first one, a seven-winged bicycle-powered craft, was flown in 1923, just two decades after the first heavier- ...

If you're in a human-powered [vehicle], you're going to go about the speed you'd go on a bicycle. If you're an Olympic team, you're going to go quite a bit faster -- say 45 or 50 [miles per hour ...

In a desolate stretch of Nevada, teams have been competing all week to break speed records for human-powered locomotion. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with one of this year's competitors, Lizanne Wilmot.

To which Hitchens, an atheist who grew up as a nominal Christian, replied, “The greatest contribution of Christianity in my life is the reminder of the complete ephemerality of human power, and ...

The theme this month is human-powered travel, so we're looking for photos of people moving through the world under their own power, using means of transportation mundane or exotic.