Animal Welfare, Brain Tissue, LegWay & AOL CDs
Britain sought to live up to its reputation as a nation of animal lovers this week with a plan to overhaul almost 100 years of laws covering the welfare of all animals kept by humans.
A way of keeping slices of living brain tissue alive for weeks has developed by a biotech company. This will allow drug developers to study the effect of chemicals on entire neural networks, not just individual cells.
Steve has built a Lego version of Dean Kamen's Segway Human Transporter. It was constructed using only Lego, two cheap custom sensors and some smart programming using the open source BrickOS for the Lego RCX. The LegWay, as the creator calls it, can balance itself on two wheels and follow a line.
Jim McKenna and John Lieberman from California are trying to give AOL a taste of its own medicine. They're asking people to send them AOL CDs, and they're going to drop them off at the company's doorstep once they collect one million CDs.
A way of keeping slices of living brain tissue alive for weeks has developed by a biotech company. This will allow drug developers to study the effect of chemicals on entire neural networks, not just individual cells.
Steve has built a Lego version of Dean Kamen's Segway Human Transporter. It was constructed using only Lego, two cheap custom sensors and some smart programming using the open source BrickOS for the Lego RCX. The LegWay, as the creator calls it, can balance itself on two wheels and follow a line.
Jim McKenna and John Lieberman from California are trying to give AOL a taste of its own medicine. They're asking people to send them AOL CDs, and they're going to drop them off at the company's doorstep once they collect one million CDs.