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  1. Health & Medicine

    Yummy Bugs

    Do you enjoy chocolate? You can make it more nutritious by bugging it—with crickets, for example. Or how about ant-fortified tacos? This site introduces Westerners to the idea that many commonly encountered insects are edible. Indeed, most are lower in fat—and higher in protein—than beef, lamb, pork, or chicken. The site’s author argues that “insects […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    A Prayer for Archimedes

    A long-lost work by Archimedes shows his subtle grasp of the notion of infinity, and how close he was to developing calculus.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  3. Animals

    Crowcam: Camera on bird’s tail captures bird ingenuity

    Video cameras attached to tropical crows record the birds' use of plant stems as tools to dig out food.