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JAPAN : THE HUMANOIDS- Robot fans gather around Manoi, a humanoid robot designed to compete in robot athletics tournaments, as the new model is launched in Tokyo on May 29, 2007.

JAPAN : THE HUMANOIDS- The exposed face of a robot in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2007.

JAPAN : THE HUMANOIDS- A woman admires the PaPeRo robot, designed to be a live-in partner with people and can discriminate among, and memorize the faces of, up to ten people, in Tokyo on May 3, 2007.

JAPAN : THE HUMANOIDS- In many cultures, where science fiction often depicts the rise of robots as an ominous threat, most Japanese have long portrayed robots as friends and heroes and embrace humanoid robot technology. Increasingly, the Japanese are…

German research vessel Polarstern to the eastern Atlantic Ocean to document the plankton and the deep sea animals collected during a Census of Marine Life projekt.

Before we went to Zakouma I told Nick there are six types of cats: lions, leopards, cheetah, caracals, wild cats, and the serval. The most elegant of them all is the serval so of course what we wanted most was a perfect shot of one. Downloading…

Untitled - A polar bear lies sedated, surrounded in 360 degrees by endless white above the Arctic Circle as U.S. Geological Survey scientists study the health of the polar bear population amid worries of habitat loss due to global warming.

Anna is prepared for surgery in the busiest pediatric brain surgery unit in the country. A line is carefully drawn to mark the path that Dr. Fredrick Boop will follow as he gains access to her tumor. Careful consideration is given to the placement of…

BUSH MEAT: In preparation for the bush meat trade, monkeys are thrown onto open fires to burn off their fur prior to being sold naked at food markets throughout central West Africa. Despite being banned, the consumption of bush meat remains popular…

Underwater Photographer and Goliath Grouper in Jupiter, FL. The largest grouper in the Western Hemisphere, the Goliath is endangered and protected due to excessive commercial and recreational fishing. It has reestablished itself in Southeast Florida…