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New lease of life: transforming biowaste into a valuable resource

Central Macedonia, a region on the northern mainland of Greece, is an important producer of food. It generates a quarter of the country’s agricultural output and is the source of much of Greece’s table olives, peaches, wine and dairy products. But this productivity also results in large amounts of agricultural waste.  EU-funded researchers

EU takes the lead in the search for new mpox treatments

On a Sunday evening in June 2022, a patient walked into a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. “I remember it very clearly,” says Mayara Secco, the doctor responsible for handling emergency cases that night.  “The patient just returned from Europe and had a single lesion on his body. He didn’t have fever or

Nature’s threads: creating clothes from the ground up

From risottos to sauces, mushrooms have long been a staple in the kitchen. Now fungi are showing the potential to serve up more than just flavour – as a sustainable, bendy material for the fashion industry. Researchers are using the web-like structure of the mushroom’s root system – the mycelium – as an

South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs

Researchers in the education sphere benefit from collaboration and idea-sharing. cgstock/Shutterstock Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise, University of South Africa and Maureen Robinson, Stellenbosch University South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major contributions in areas like the biomedical