One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles, a couple hundred people gathered in a cavernous old soundstage to ...

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Entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the world of insects. Are cockroaches so resilient that they'd survive a nuclear war? Why do praying mantis ...

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