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Mystery meat from the lab

Daily Free Press Admin March 5, 2012

By Alex Wiles, Features Staff Writer Do you ever wonder where that meat in your chicken nuggets comes from?  The answer may soon be a test tube. Mark Post, a researcher at Maastricht University in the...

Jaw-dropping printing technology on the horizon

Daily Free Press Admin February 20, 2012

By Alex Wiles, Features Staff Writer We now live in a world where replacing a bone is nearly as easy as hitting “print.” Well, there is a bit more to the process than a single click, but this is essentially...

The Future Is Crystal Clear

Daily Free Press Admin January 30, 2012

Scientists defy the laws of nature by creating quasicrystals, an innovation that won a Nobel Prize in 2011. In 1982, Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa,...

Man versus machine

Daily Free Press Admin November 29, 2011

Society may be down to the final sprint in the race against the machine.  As technology progresses, more and more jobs that were once held by humans are being filled by machines.  As machines become...

Nothing Better Than The Real Thing

Daily Free Press Admin November 7, 2011

IBM attempts to build a computer that simulates the human brain, but do they really understand what that entails? Humans, cats, and machines – one of these things is not like the other. At least, that’s...

Failing To Do The Impossible

Daily Free Press Admin October 31, 2011

Italian scientists are being held on trial for their inability to predict the future. Is not informing the public about a natural disaster sufficient basis for a manslaughter charge? This question is...

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