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Tepic, Mexico, Sept 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Juicy lab-grown steaks and burgers made of plant-based meat could soon be tempting hardened carnivores scanning restaurant menus in the world’s biggest cities, as food producers explore fresh ways to feed booming populations.

With people pouring into cities across the developing world, rocketing demand for meat and dairy products will make it essential to find high-protein alternatives that have a lower environmental impact, some experts say.

“The food of the future, as we become more and more urban, will continue to be meat but it won’t be meat from industrialised animal agriculture,” said Bruce Friedrich, executive director of the Washington-based Good Food Institute.

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Scientists are turning chickens into dinosaurs… kinda.

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Step inside the Juvet Landscape Hotel in western Norway, the main setting for the 2015 sci-fi thriller “Ex Machina.”

Estonia is a leader in technology and innovation, but now the rest of the world must catch up.

Beginning in November, some US Navy submarine periscopes will be operated in a new, less expensive way: via Xbox controllers.

Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another goal: that computers would someday be able to see, hear, communicate and understand humans and their environment.

More than 25 years and two CEOs later, Microsoft is betting its future on it.

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The annual awards ceremony for research that “first makes you laugh, then makes you think” took place at Harvard University on Thursday evening, with three bona fide Nobel laureates, including the British-born economist Oliver Hart, on hand to distribute prizes.

Scientists from around the globe gathered for annual ceremony celebrating research that ‘first makes you laugh, then makes you think’.