The new procedure allowed for successful cloning of a frozen mouse ... so there is a way to go.
Mammoth could be brought back to life | News.com.au
Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, said the same technique could be used to resurrect the woolly mammoth, which died out about 5000 years ago.
"Now the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth," he said.
Analysis indicates they were making a dry red.
Archeologists toast world's oldest wine press • The Register
Carbon dating on one desiccated grape vine showed it had grown around 4,000 BC, meaning the press was "1,000 years older than any other wine-making facility discovered".
US Supreme Court declines to intervene, allowing a civil suit to proceed against Big Music.
Alleged music price-fixing will be probed- The Inquirer
These included the 'big four' music labels - Sony, Warner Music, EMI, and a unit of Vivendi SA, the company behind Universal Music Group. They were accused of making an agreement with each other to make sure that prices wouldn't be any lower than 70 cents a tune, even though some of their rivals were selling tracks for much less.
The newly announced TuneLink Auto looks like a typical cigarette adapter charger at first glance, but within, there's technology that accepts audio over Bluetooth and then sends it out over FM. This prevents users from having to connect a dongle of any kind to their iPad, iPod touch or iPhone, but the built-in USB port is actually capable of charging all three should you choose.
Well, that's what it looks like: analysis of large aggregations of human behavior yeild enough data to predict the future of the DOW with 87.6% accuracy. Its even more analogous when you figure in that if the tweeters learn about the predictions, the outcome will change.
Twitter Predicts the Stock Market | Singularity Hub
Bollen, Mao, and Zeng fed the 9.8 million tweets into OpinionFinder and GPOMS and compared the trends they found to the Dow. The emotional lens that seemed to have a strong correlation to the stock market was ‘Calm’. When the calmness of tweets changed, two to six days later the Dow would fluctuate in about the same way.
Surely no one will step up with copyright concerns this time ...
Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online
The scrolls will be available in their original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and at first an English translation. Eventually other translations will be added and Google's translation feature may also be incorporated. They will also be searchable.
