Talented though they may be, monkeys will never type out the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a short book, a new study suggests. The Infinite Monkey Theorem is a famous thought ...

Monkeys WOULDN'T type the complete works of Shakespeare if given until the end of time: Scientists reveal the reason why (although they might type 'banana') By RORY FLEMING, NEWS REPORTER ...

An old adage says that a monkey randomly clicking away at the keyboard would eventually type the complete works of William Shakespeare after being at it long enough. However, a new study by two ...

Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an ...

So a million monkeys typing furiously would never even reproduce one book's single short opening line…or for that matter, the 15-letter phrase “The Secret of Life” Moral: Forget the monkeys ...

Monkeying around: a study finds it would take 200,000 monkeys the lifespan of the universe to type out “I chimp, therefore I am”. (Courtesy: iStock/GlobalP) According to the well-known thought ...

The monkeys were able to type at about 12 words per minute — certainly not as speedy as the best typists but fast enough to sustain conversation, the researchers reported Sept. 12 in the journal ...

This advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) – developed by Stanford University researchers – lets the monkeys type faster than in previous tests. And in a video of the software used by the ...