Lu ShaoJi via Getty Images There are few things as heavenly as climbing into a warm, plush hotel bed after a long day of traveling. “I have two really good friends who have gotten bed bugs in New York before,” HuffPost Senior Editor Caroline Bologna told us — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It …
Lunar bugs to ocean moons: Seven things science has revealed about aliens so far Emmanuel LaFont We have yet to find any confirmation of extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial life could really be out there among the stars – here is some of what we have learned thanks to science. Ocean moons may be the best places to find alien life Several …
Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. The researchers, using a concept called “gene drive,” manipulated the insects’ DNA so that the female offspring would be sterile, and the method …
In a city renowned for its food, Mexican chef Alejandro Ruiz Olmedo shines extra bright. Tansha Vohra who runs it tells me there are over 200 edible insects in India, and a start-up called Insectify is trying to use black fly larvae, which is super high in fibre, for animal food. Too embarrassed to eat Yet, Vohra is very aware …