Biotechnology
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable plast..
Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products. It was a surprise to find our research could also address a big problem in sustainability: that of plastic pollution
Researchers from the… read more
Unexpected discovery: ‘Blue-green algae̵..
Cyanobacteria – also called blue-green algae – can produce oil from water and carbon dioxide with the help of light. This is shown by a recent study by the University of Bonn. The result is unexpected: Until now, it… read more
Think again before extolling organic farming
The motivation to fight hunger Julie Borlaug inherited from her grandfather, who got the Nobel Price for his work on agricultural renovations. And like him she is looking for answers in modernising.
Yes, an enormous challenge! Before the end of… read more
Potatoes for oysters
Restoring ecosystems
All over the world wet ecosytems like mangroves, marshes, coralreefs, coasts, are playing an important role in keeping the local nature in balance. This is common knowledge, but still many of these ecosystems are disappearing or degraded. People… read more
Ants’ shit may help feed humanity
About 12.000 years ago humans started cultivate crops. But farming is much older; it is known from fungi farmed by ants, termites or beetles. Leafcutter ants, the best known farmers among insects derive from insects that have been running mould… read more
