McFatty | March 18, 2008
TED | Talks | Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life (video) “Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2 as their [...]
McFatty | March 18, 2008
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McFatty | March 17, 2008
Why men prefer fair-skinned maidens and women like dark, handsome strangers | the Mail on Sunday Gentlemen do not just prefer blondes, but lighter-skinned women in general, a study has suggested. Scientists looking into attractiveness in men and woman suggest that men from all races find fairer-skinned woman most alluring, while women are the polar [...]
McFatty | March 5, 2008
IEEE Spectrum: Electronic Noses Sniff Success This e-nose will be the culmination of decades of work at countless laboratories, where researchers have sought to create a tiny, cheap, automatic sniffer that would let wine bottles monitor the aging of their contents, allow meat packages to flag spoilage, and enable mailboxes to check for bombs. Imagine [...]
