The Week In Numbers: The First Lab-Grown Burger, 3-D Printed Body Parts, And More
The Body Shop Kevin Hand $600,000: the funding the National Institutes of Health has awarded to bioprinting projects since 2007. See how 3-D printed body parts will revolutionize medicine. 20,000: the number of cow cells in the first lab-grown beef patty $15,000: the money this team hopes to raise for a campaign to get rid of mean people via natural selection 1,397: the number of known asteroids that could potentially end the world $350: the shipping cost for a $1.15 million Andy Warhol painting (you can now buy fine art on Amazon) $250 million: the money Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid to buy the Washington Post 20 tons: the weight of each of the seven mirrors in the new Giant Magellan Telescope, which will display the far reaches of the universe at 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope 2015: the year NASA will begin the first twins health study in space 13...