Moo Cow Pseudo Facial Recognition

Please don’t read into the sudden infatuation with bovine technology. It’s just that it sound so preposterous that it deserves to be passed on to the masses. I do suppose that as technology becomes more and more fundamental in our daily routines, these types of applications are inevitable. Nonetheless,
Australian scientists have launched technology that uses [...]

Where’s the Beef?

The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows.

But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) animal scientist Dean M. Anderson has taken tracking several steps further with a Walkman-like headset that enables him to “whisper” wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape—and even [...]

How Cow Farts Can Solve Our Energy Problems

The folks at Bell Plantations in Tifton, Georgia are developing a way to convert bacteria into hydrocarbons. By genetically manipulating the bacteria, they believe they can produce different

molecular chains to produce the basis for gasoline, diesel, propane and a variety of other hydrocarbon fuels.
In essence, they will be able to turn bacteria into [...]