I’m in the kitchen of a tech lab munching on a morsel of chicken around the size of a Frosted Mini-Wheat. The small chunks of meat sit among plum tomatoes, thinly-sliced onions, a few capers, and a butter-based sauce.

I take a bite and the flavor is savory and somewhat familiar. It tastes like chicken, to use an old cliche, but it doesn’t necessarily feel like chicken. The meat has a texture that can be categorized somewhere between fish and dark meat poultry.

But here’s the thing — it is chicken. Just not the kind you’re used to.

I sampled meat made out of chicken cells grown in a vat that resembles the machinery at a dairy factory. The outcome: chicken meat that never actually clucked as a fully grown chicken.

NASA’s Lucy mission will target its first asteroid later this year, kick-starting its exploration of our Solar System’s origins much sooner than planned.

In a Wednesday announcement, the space agency said that its Lucy spacecraft, which launched on October 16, 2021, will target a small rock located between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt on November 1, 2023.

Up until now, Lucy has spent a year and a half in flight. It's performed one gravitational flyby of Earth to reach a mysterious population of asteroids adrift near Jupiter known as Trojans. The newest member of its rocky roster, designated 1999 VD57, is now the first asteroid that Lucy will study, two years ahead of what used to be its first-assigned asteroid flyby in 2025.

If you had to rank the most powerful sense, which would you choose? Over 88 percent of participants in a 2016 survey ranked vision as their most important sense, followed by hearing in a distant second. In fact, taste, smell, and touch are often overlooked entirely.

But touch matters a lot — in ways most people don’t always recognize. For instance, it helps us steer clear of hot stoves, figure out an object’s weight and composition, and, of course, tap away at our smartphones and tablets. In fact, scientists are paying close attention to touch when developing futuristic robots and other electronics.

Now, researchers have developed a new electronic skin that may even be more touch-sensitive than human hands. “Even without touching it, it is able to tell whether an object is further away or closer,” Yifan Wang, a mechanical engineer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and co-author of the study, tells Inverse.