I think this is pretty big news:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/artificial.life.ap/index.html
but everyone is distracted by the "wide stance" Craig affair.
How do they make artificial life? The scientists are taking a very clever approach by leveraging nature:
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/artificial.life.ap/index.html
but everyone is distracted by the "wide stance" Craig affair.
How do they make artificial life? The scientists are taking a very clever approach by leveraging nature:
"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.