Año: 2023

Para la mayoría, los grillos son la música que suena en las noches de verano. Pero los dueños de Entomo Farms vieron que la proteína de los grillos podía usarse como una fuente sustentable de comida nutritiva.

¿Qué es sabroso, abundante y alto en proteína? ¡Los insectos! Aunque menos común fuera de los trópicos, la entomofagia, la práctica de comer insectos fue alguna vez de lo más extendida en las culturas. Puede que sientas repulsión al masticar insectos, pero alimentan a cerca de 2000 millones de personas al día (mmh, tarántulas fritas). […]

French businesses are betting on insects as food. We explore the off-limit foods that might soon be on our plates.

Our underwater forests are largely unobserved, but now they are vanishing. To understand why, scientists dive underwater and look down from space–and their research reveals a complex system at risk of collapse.

Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack it to sabotage their rivals.

Card: How might the universe end? Michio Kaku: Well, when we try to look at the whole universe itself — many people ask the question, «Well Professor, how do you know — how do you know that the universe is expanding? How do you know that it came from a big bang? How can you […]

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a common objective. (Internet searches, cloud computing and artificial intelligence all involve orchestrating legions of powerful computing machines to work together.) In the early 1980s, Lamport […]

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a parasitic fungus called cordyceps infect ants and other insects in order to reproduce. Mind control fungus.

Cockatoos have been documented using multiple tools to retrieve cashew nuts stored away inside a box. This ability to transport and use toolsets has only been previously reported in chimpanzees, our closest relatives. The researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, captured this footage, displaying the technical cognition and decision making of cockatoos.