More often than we admit, we ignore things that are right in front of us, simply because they do not match "our reality", or our current understanding of it. A priori beliefs can weigh heavily on our capacity to see diversity and detect the unknown... click to read more

Globally about one-third of food produced for human consumption assumptively goes to waste. Food waste is a squandering of resources and money and this is why Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 aims to halve food waste by 2030. But the progress is hard to measure as... click to read more

What have you learned from your friends or family? Many animals, including humans, learn behaviour from other individuals of the same species through a process called social learning. Offspring often rely on their parents to learn behaviour, as the parental generation is usually more experienced and... click to read more

The distribution of the present-day native Brazilian peoples considerably differs from the one found by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. At the time, a third of the Brazilian native population (about 900,000) lived on the Atlantic coast and were part of complex societies. Most... click to read more

Beer making is based on the conversion of starch into alcohol by saccharification and fermentation. While ethanol fermentation is usually carried out by single-celled yeasts, saccharification is one of the few processes in food production that requires the processed organism to, well... process itself. When a... click to read more