• Think you have the key to national security? There just might be $100,000 in it for you if you’re right.
• The latest in wild palette choices: Australian bandicoots go wild for French truffle oil.
• Want to see something differently? Place it close to your hands.
• Russia’s economy has been sitting pretty over the rise in oil prices—but some experts still aren’t all that impressed.
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• And for your dose of scientific horror: A scene from Alien, reenacted by caterpillars and wasps.
