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Mealworms Can Eat Plastic, But Study Shows Limited Impact on Pollution Crisis
Research published in Biology Letters has examined the ability of mealworms to break down plastics, including disposable face masks. According to the study, it takes 100 mealworms about 138 days to consume a single polypropylene mask. The findings indicate that while insects like mealworms can eat and degrade plastics, their slow consumption rate m...
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Plastic-Eating Worms Could Be The Solution To Faster Reduction Of Pollution
A plastic-eating insect may help solve the trash problem that has choked the Earth for a long time, scientists have concluded in a new study.
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Silkworms, Locusts And More: Singapore Approves These 16 Insects As Food
While approving these insects for "human consumption or as animal feed", SFA informed that the production should be safe, and not in the "wild".
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''Ate Worms, Drank Urine'': Man Shares How He Survived In Amazon Forest For 31 Days
Following his rescue, Mr Acosta recounted how he kept himself alive in the forest and what hardships he had to go through.
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British Organisation Calls For Insect Eating In Hunger-Stricken African Countries
According to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), the number of people in the Horn of Africa who face the threat of starvation has risen to 22 million.
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Global Warming Will Make Insects Hungrier, Eating Up Key Crops: Study
Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.
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Want A Healthier Gut? Eat Crickets, Yes That's What This Study Says
Crickets for gut health: A new study says that insects like crickets are filled with different kinds of fibres - which you may not get from other food sources like potatoes and berries. Eating crickets can help in improving gut health, the study suggests.
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Here's Why You Should Not Eat Raw Foods During Monsoon
Monsoon is also the time when our chances of catching an infection or flu are fairly high, because of all the germs and bacteria around. Cases of upset stomach, diarrhoea, and food poisoning are especially rampant during this weather, which is why experts often advice to keep the diet clean and light during monsoon.
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Our Ancestors' Diet Shifted Much Earlier Than Thought
Our ancestors made the shift from a diet based on trees and shrubs to grass-based foods -- that include not only grasses and their roots, but also insects or animals that ate grass -- roughly 400,000 years earlier than experts previously thought, says new research.
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Mealworm Dumplings and Virtual Reality: The Best Date Ever?
The Shuffle festival in east London runs until this Saturday, and its science programming is genuinely exciting. And that's before we get to eating worms.
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Eating Insects - More Common Than You'd Think
Depending solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop or leave their fields dry and barren, farmers in this village in northeastern Thailand, the country's poorest region, led a precarious and back-breaking existence. Then they discovered bugs.At...
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Man Survives in Brazilian Forest Eating Insects
A man lost in the Brazilian forest survived for 12 days by eating insects.
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Top 10 Contenders For Most Bizarre Contests: For Those With an Iron Stomach
Please keep a barf bag handy for what you are about to see
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Eating the Worm: An Astronaut's New Diet?
From bizarre beings to a food fad, insects have crawled their way to fame.
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Grub's up: Can Insects Feed the World?
Two billion people already eat insects as part of their regular diet - bugs may not sound appealing, but once upon a time neither did sushi. Is it time to put ants, beetles and locusts on the menu?From the high windows of a warehouse in southern Spain...
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Mealworms Can Eat Plastic, But Study Shows Limited Impact on Pollution Crisis
Research published in Biology Letters has examined the ability of mealworms to break down plastics, including disposable face masks. According to the study, it takes 100 mealworms about 138 days to consume a single polypropylene mask. The findings indicate that while insects like mealworms can eat and degrade plastics, their slow consumption rate m...
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Plastic-Eating Worms Could Be The Solution To Faster Reduction Of Pollution
A plastic-eating insect may help solve the trash problem that has choked the Earth for a long time, scientists have concluded in a new study.
-
Silkworms, Locusts And More: Singapore Approves These 16 Insects As Food
While approving these insects for "human consumption or as animal feed", SFA informed that the production should be safe, and not in the "wild".
-
''Ate Worms, Drank Urine'': Man Shares How He Survived In Amazon Forest For 31 Days
Following his rescue, Mr Acosta recounted how he kept himself alive in the forest and what hardships he had to go through.
-
British Organisation Calls For Insect Eating In Hunger-Stricken African Countries
According to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), the number of people in the Horn of Africa who face the threat of starvation has risen to 22 million.
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Global Warming Will Make Insects Hungrier, Eating Up Key Crops: Study
Researchers have found a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.
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Want A Healthier Gut? Eat Crickets, Yes That's What This Study Says
Crickets for gut health: A new study says that insects like crickets are filled with different kinds of fibres - which you may not get from other food sources like potatoes and berries. Eating crickets can help in improving gut health, the study suggests.
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Here's Why You Should Not Eat Raw Foods During Monsoon
Monsoon is also the time when our chances of catching an infection or flu are fairly high, because of all the germs and bacteria around. Cases of upset stomach, diarrhoea, and food poisoning are especially rampant during this weather, which is why experts often advice to keep the diet clean and light during monsoon.
-
Our Ancestors' Diet Shifted Much Earlier Than Thought
Our ancestors made the shift from a diet based on trees and shrubs to grass-based foods -- that include not only grasses and their roots, but also insects or animals that ate grass -- roughly 400,000 years earlier than experts previously thought, says new research.
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Mealworm Dumplings and Virtual Reality: The Best Date Ever?
The Shuffle festival in east London runs until this Saturday, and its science programming is genuinely exciting. And that's before we get to eating worms.
-
Eating Insects - More Common Than You'd Think
Depending solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop or leave their fields dry and barren, farmers in this village in northeastern Thailand, the country's poorest region, led a precarious and back-breaking existence. Then they discovered bugs.At...
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Man Survives in Brazilian Forest Eating Insects
A man lost in the Brazilian forest survived for 12 days by eating insects.
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Top 10 Contenders For Most Bizarre Contests: For Those With an Iron Stomach
Please keep a barf bag handy for what you are about to see
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Eating the Worm: An Astronaut's New Diet?
From bizarre beings to a food fad, insects have crawled their way to fame.
-
Grub's up: Can Insects Feed the World?
Two billion people already eat insects as part of their regular diet - bugs may not sound appealing, but once upon a time neither did sushi. Is it time to put ants, beetles and locusts on the menu?From the high windows of a warehouse in southern Spain...
