This documentary explores whether humans will ever download skills instantly like Neo in The Matrix, and what science says about learning Kung Fu in seconds.

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the ...

What comes to mind when you think of kung fu? Shaolin monks, Bruce Lee, Kung Fu Panda or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Kung fu, also known as Chinese martial arts or wushu, was originally a fighting ...