But Is It Life?
The Guardian reported this past weekend that J. Craig Venter will soon announce that he has created artificial life. But even his spokesperson is saying that’s not the whole story.
On the Newsstand: Biofuels
The most recent issues of two monthly magazines, National Geographic and Wired, boast solid cover stories on biofuels – solid because they make clear the limitations of corn-derived ethanol and focus on the promise of celluloic ethanol – yet the covers themselves present two very different ways of shifting the conversation past corn ethanol and on to cellulose.
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