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Jellyfish Chips Are the Future of Junk Food
Jellyfish are not exactly the centerpiece of most people’s ideal meals. The umbrella-shaped animals are slimy, tasteless, and can be extremely poisonous. But a population boom and the need to reduce meat — and other foods that require extensive energy…
Organic Farming Could Feed the World, But…
The United Nations estimates the global population will reach more than 9 billion by 2050, and, by some estimates, agricultural output will have to increase by 50 percent to feed all of those mouths. So is it possible to do…
Scientists Discover Plants Respond to Anesthetics — Which Could End Animal Testing
Researchers have found that plants react to anesthesia the same way that humans and animals do. This could allow plants to be used in place of animals for anesthetic drug testing. First used as an alternative to crude methods like…