How Eating Frog Legs Is Causing Frog Extinctions

How Eating Frog Legs Is Causing Frog Extinctions: "

Frog legs are still an amazingly popular food item around the world, including here in the U.S. According to a new report, an average of 2,280 metric tons of frog legs are imported into this country each year--that's the equivalent of somewhere between 450 million and 1.1 billion frogs. Another 2,216 metric tons of live frogs are imported every year for sale in Asian-American markets. [More]

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First artificial neural network created out of DNA: Molecular soup exhibits brainlike behavior

First artificial neural network created out of DNA: Molecular soup exhibits brainlike behavior: "Researchers have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence -- not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete patterns, just as a brain can."