Flower Power Takes on Land Mines – A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically modified flower that could help detect land mines and it hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few years. [ “(extlink)Wired News”:http://www.wired.com ] Apparently the scientists have discovered a way to link flowers stress reactions to the ...
NASA unable to communicate with Mars rover – The Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars, NASA mission controllers said Thursday, but there were signs it is still operating at a basic level. NASA scientists now have received a basic communication tone from the rover indicating it is alive but the solid flows of ...
Pixar’s released a new short film clip preview entitled Boundin’ (Play Boundin’). I love Pixar animation. Part of it is the quality of the rendering and CGI, but I think most of it has to do with the quality of the characters and stories that they build. “(extlink)Finding Nemo”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/ wasn’t a great computer animated movie, ...
Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware – with a camera phone that is also a bar-code scanner, you can go into a store like Barnes & Noble, take a photo of the ISBN number on a book and instantly receive a coupon offering the book for 30 percent less at Amazon.com,” said Attia. [ “(extlink)Wired News”:http://www.wired.com ...
Flowers Detect Landmines
Jan
28
2004
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