Douglas Heingartner
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SuchScience
Journalist and editor with 20+ years of experience. I have written about science, technology, politics, art, architecture, and more for publications including the The New York Times, The Economist, Wired, New Scientist, BBC, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, IEEE Spectrum, Quartz, The Village Voice, CBS News, and Frieze. From 2018 - 2020, I also worked as a Media Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Currently editing and .
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Douglas Heingartner
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ATZE JAN VAN DER GOOT removes a laptop-size slab from a refrigerator and deposits it on a table with an icy thump. It's a reddish-brown mass, with clearly visible fibrous striations. And though it's half frozen, it's still pliable: You can pick away small pieces with your fingers, but it retains its shape, just like a hunk of frigid raw beef would. This is no ordinary fake steak. For one thing, it has attracted the interest-and money-of some of the world's leading food conglomerates, including Unilever, the Swiss flavor maker Givaudan, and Avril Group, the Parisbased agro-industrial concern. Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today. Rather, it was produced with a new and radically different kind of machine. This machine was designed by Van der Goot to do one thing extraordinarily well: turn vegetable-based ingredients into something so similar to meat that it can grab a healthy share of the fast-growing market for meat substitutes, which was estimated at US $4 billion last year by the research firm Visiongain, in London.
Douglas Heingartner
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Controlling objects with just your thoughts has been a dream of sci-fi from ¿Star Trek¿ to Star Wars, but in the past few years that dream has inched closer to reality. Brain-computer interfaces have allowed wheelchair-bound quadriplegics to move cursors on screens and monkeys to control robot arms.