Transgenic animals are formed by combining the genetic material of one animal with that of another. The creative people at Worth 1000 have out done themselves with this series of photos showing the extreme possibilities for transgenic animals. Amazing photos.

Peggy is an "open source lighted pegboard design" from Evil Mad Scientist Labs, released to coincide with the anniversary of the Great Boston Mooninite Scare of 2007, when law enforcement mistook lite-brites advertising a cartoon for terrorist paraphernalia and spent $2,000,000 running around, flapping their arms, screaming, and pulling their hair.

The device itself is fairly simple: a small flexible circuit board inside a body that is composed of plastic and can be blown up manually.

Chinese weather experts say they have stopped the rain from falling in experiments, so their next big task will be to guarantee a dry opening ceremony at August’s Olympic Games. With
no roof on the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium, the Beijing
Meteorological Bureau has been charged with developing methods of
preventing wet weather spoiling what promises to be […]

It’s more like Frozen Dentures.

New Zealand scientists have completed the testing of "tearless" onions.

A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report.

The future ain’t what it used to be. In the pre-PC era, futurists
predicted huge changes in transportation. By 2008 we would be flitting
about in personal jetpacks and taking vacations on the moon. But the
communications revolution spurred by personal computers and the
Internet wasn’t on anyone’s radar. 
Now the technology landscape is on the verge of changes that […]

Carbon nanotubes—cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side
by side to equal the width of a human hair—are packed with the
potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines
and other therapeutic agents to patients. But a dearth of data about
what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads
has been a major stumbling […]

Britain’s "Frisky Fifties"
have swapped the boardroom for the bedroom but one in 10 could be putting
themselves at risk of infection by having sex without a contraceptive, a survey
showed on Thursday.

The tape measure has been a constant companion of the working man for years. 
Just when you think everything that could go digital has already done
so, we see this bastion of tradition now in digital form. (w/pic)