The bumper sticker reads “My rat is smarter than YOU.” Transgenically-enhanced Hobbie-J –- named after a clever rat in a Chinese cartoon book – may not be smarter than you, but she appears to be smarter than the smartest known breeds of rat.
Mackenzie Cowell is one of a group of amateurs exploring the techniques of synthetic biology which applies the tools and methodologies of engineering and computer science to the field of biology.
"Daddy, when are you going to die?" asks my daughter Zenobia, age five. "Yeah, how much longer do you really think you can live?" says big sister, Tallulah, age nine.
There may soon be a run on coconut futures. Vintage 2002 Indonesian coconut-shell charcoal is being used to help build what may become the first commercially viable Tokamak fusion power electrical generating facility near Cadarache in the south of France – about 38 miles from the Mediterranean.
On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Office submitted a brief to the Southern District Court of New York. The legal action involved twenty plaintiffs, including organizations like the Association for Molecular Pathology along with medical doctors and private individuals.
A marine named Bitterman runs through the virtual landscape of Quake II carrying a blaster, a railgun, a rocket launcher, or a shotgun and shooting anyone in his way.
At first, the show seems like any other you’ve gone to. The room is impossibly hot, the combined whispers of the crowd join together to make it impossible to hear anything. Then as the lights turn down, the crowd starts to hush and The Protomen file on stage.
Supercomputing is the engine that drives our science, commerce, and communication. Giant search engines trawl the net with billions of queries, molecules are modeled and modified in massive simulations, and deep under Wall Street hulking processors trade massive blocks of money at the speed of light.
