Content: Volume 7, Issue 1
Shelling out for dinner: dolphins’ foraging technique spreads socially among peers
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
Starving cancer: dietary modifications may enhance cancer therapy
We all obsess about our fitness and health and a critical part of it is how and what we eat. Healthy nutrition is not only important for our look, but also linked to all aspects of physiology and disease. Recent years have seen a surge... click to read more
Reading South American history in the native Brazilian genomes
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
Engineering bacteria to save honey bees
Humans have kept honey bees for millennia, and scientists love to study them because of their unique societies (80,000 bees can live and work together in a single hive!) and communication (they exchange information by "dancing"). Honey bees also help produce much of the food... click to read more
The oldest beer in central Europe? Take it with a pinch of… malt!
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
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