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Content: Volume 7, Issue 4

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Disparities in food spending away from home: where will COVID hit hospitality hardest?

Like much of the world, the UK hospitality industry has been one of the hardest hit sectors of the economy. Lockdowns and restrictions have forced restaurants, cafes and other dine-in venues to close. Even if allowed to trade, travel restrictions and home working have limited... click to read more

  • William James | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Consumer Data Research Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Nov 11, 2021
How does the bat find the tree? With a “cognitive” map!

As soon as the sun sets, hundreds of Egyptian fruit bats leave their cave and fly out, one-by-one, into the night. Their goal: trees bearing ripe fleshy fruits. They must consume more than twice their own body weight of this relatively uncommon and patchily-distributed resource... click to read more

  • David Shohami | PhD graduate at Movement Ecology Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Nov 8, 2021
Hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19? Let’s listen to monkeys!

There is no need to introduce the COVID-19 pandemic and its toll on humanity, as everyone has been affected by the coronavirus in some way. Let us go back to 2020 when it started spreading quickly, when hospitals were filling with patients that required respiratory... click to read more

  • Pauline Maisonnasse | Researcher at IDMIT, IBFJ, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
  • Roger Le Grand | Director of Research at IDMIT, IBFJ, CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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Reading time 4 min
published on Oct 20, 2021
Finding the novelty in nature

In the 1970s, Nintendo, a company that owned taxis and hotels and made playing cards and instant rice, began to make video games. This changed the company forever. Communities of species that live together in nature are somewhat like a business. Each species is a... click to read more

  • Timothy L. Staples | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
  • John M. Pandolfi | Professor at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Queesland, Australia
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Oct 18, 2021
Bee aware! Signs of a global decline in wild bee diversity

Everyone likes bees; they are fuzzy, love flowers and do many great things – but they might not be around for much longer. Although most of us are familiar with the European honeybee, this is but one of over 20 thousand species of wild bees, and... click to read more

  • Eduardo E. Zattara | Adjunct Researcher at INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Oct 14, 2021