Entomophagy, or eating insects, is a practice that dates back to prehistoric times. Crickets are one of the most common insects people consume. Products containing cricket protein have grown in ...

Crickets are often trumpeted as the future of food, an edible, eco-friendly solution to a some-day protein shortage that livestock just can’t fix. Even the United Nations promotes insect-eating as a ...

The morning after I visited Next Millennium Farms, my digestive system expelled its first cricket exoskeleton. There it was, floating on the water’s edge of my hotel room toilet: a translucent ...

Terreform, a non-profit urban architecture and design group, has been working on a project to update a centuries-old technology: the emergency shelter. The organization's design goes beyond merely ...

New, stealthy songs help crickets evade parasitic flies. But the flies are striking back Hawaii’s male crickets can’t hide from their buzzing boogeymen for long. In just a handful of years, ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered sophisticated behavioral strategies that enable parasitic crickets to survive within ant colonies. Led by Ryoya Tanaka, the team documented ...

When I told my friend Suze I was writing a blog post on an impressive new study on the impact of pets on the psychological well-being of old people, she started talking about her dad. Now 74, he went ...

Imagine if there were a virus that could get inside you and dial up your libido, so that you all of a sudden start mating more (more frequently and with more partners), so that the virus — the tricky, ...