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Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra turns fresh produce into music, dinner, and a lesson in sustainability. Most of us were taught not to play with our food. A group of musicians in Vienna heard that instruction and chose a different path. And the music is truly an acquired taste. The Vegetable Orchestra performs with instruments made from fresh produce. Carrots become recorders. Pumpkins provide percussion. Radishes form bass flutes. Leeks fill in for violins. Eggplants clap, celer

Scientists are studying the microscopic structure of cicada wings for clues to creating antibacterial surfaces. The discovery offers a striking example of biomimicry and a reminder that biodiversity may hold solutions we have not yet learned to recognize.