September 6, 2005

A group of German and Australian scientists have developed a new way of producing hydrogen from sunlight using genetically engineered algae. The scheme produces 13 times as much of the gas than a previous method of getting tiny plants to make it, and according to the team leader, it might be commercialised within five years,…

Spyblog discusses the leaked report in this weekend’s Observer that the intelligence services were considering as long ago as the summer of 2004 whether it was wise to have agents start posting to jihadi “websites” – bulletin boards presumably – in order to gain the trust of their members and persuade them against turning to…