Peter Rejcek
Viewpoint: ‘We’re pushing our food systems past their breaking point’ – Why acre for acre, algae is a model sustainable food
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), believe algae could be a new kind of superfood thanks to its high ...
‘AI in archeology’ pinpointing new excavation sites at an ‘unimaginable’ pace
Archaeologists have uncovered scores of long-abandoned settlements along coastal Madagascar that reveal environmental connections to modern-day communities. They have detected ...
‘Serious trouble’ for the natural world. Can synthetic biology protect it by redesigning insects and saving threatened species?
A paper in the journal PLOS Pathogens described how they synthetically engineered mosquitoes to stop the spread of dengue fever, a viral tropical disease ...
Novel therapies to combat deadly superbugs caused by antibiotic overuse
The overuse and misuse of antibiotics are key factors behind the evolution of so-called superbugs, multiresistant bacteria that are growing ...