The first time I saw waves light up in beautiful colours as they crashed onto the beach I thought someone had slipped me some acid. It’s real, though. Bioluminescent phytoplankton cause this spectacular light show, and wow, someone’s surfing it. More »
Renewable energies have gotten a lot of hype over the last few years. It seems only appropriate that an Intel campus in Arizona should be the first semiconductor company to receive LEED certification for a manufacturing campus right before Earth Day. More »
One of the two engines of this plane is running on biofuel derived from algae. And it managed to stay in the air. More »
Popping bubblewrap, or opening beer cans just not your obsessive compulsive cup of tea? Here’s another toy for Bandai’s Mugen range: the Mugen Tokoroten, which simulates squeezing a sea algae snack. 630 Yen for our Japanese brethren. [CNET Asia] More »
That’s right: Scientists will achieve mind control. By shining laser beams. Directly at cells in your brain. Which have been intentionally infected. By a blue-light sensitive virus. That they made in a lab. From algae.
