Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?
Bioplastics can help address the 鈥渨icked problem鈥 of plastic pollution, but companies and research institutions need to take a holistic approach, says Associate Professor Steven Pratt.
Rainfall in Central Chile has dropped by a third in the past decade. It's a major climate issue that needs urgent attention, and SMI's researchers believe they have a solution.
The problem, according to Professor Ernst Wolvetang, is that the brain he wants to study is usually still inside someone鈥檚 skull. So that鈥檚 why he grows his own.
By 2050, experts predict that climate change could kill off the 2 main coffee varieties we drink daily while also jeopardising 60 per cent of the planet鈥檚 124 wild coffee plants.