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Team wants to sell lab grown meat in five years - BBC News - 1 views

  • The Dutch team who have grown the world's first burger in a lab say they hope to have a product on sale in five years.Researchers are to set up a company to look at making the burger tastier and cheaper
  • The burger is made from stem-cells: the templates from which specialised tissue such as nerve or skin cells develop.
  • The motivation for the research is to find ways of keeping up with the growing demand for meat. Traditional farming methods will need to use more energy, water and land - and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emission will be substantial.
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  • One food expert said it was "close to meat, but not that juicy" and another said it tasted like a real burger.
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    Looks like we wont need to grow livestock for food in the near future. Artificial meat going to be mass produced.
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British scientists create a 'tractor beam' of ultrasonic sound - 1 views

  • A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex have developed the world's first functioning sonic tractor beam able to operate outside of a lab environment.
  • These waves create an "acoustic hologram" (read: force field) capable of moving pea-sized objects without physically touching them. Adjusting the output of individual speakers allows the researchers to move, rotate and hold items at will.
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    A new way of manipulation without direct phisical contact may lead to creation of stractures that were impossible and innovate production methods in veriety of industries.
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