Despite their nutritional value, legumes are deeply underrated. Bálint Balázs, senior researcher at ESSR, a research facility based in Hungary, explains the importance of growing and eating legumes. Beans, for example, are associated with poverty, but at the end of the day, they could save the planet.

Media literacy, a scientist's opinion   Interview with Walter Quattrociocchi, head of the Laboratory of Data and Complexity at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.     How would you define media literacy?     Walter Quattrociocchi: The definition varies greatly depending on the problem that you are trying...

Media literacy, a scientist's opinion   Interview with Jenni Sargent, managing director of First Draft.     What is your definition of media literacy?   Jenni Sargent: It's very difficult because I'm one of the most vocal critics of the expression media literacy. I worry that it can be patronising because...

Libra project, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Dr Iwa Salami, senior lecturer in financial law and regulation at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London.     How could the introduction of Libra (without regulatory interventions) impact the financial system (maybe...

Libra project, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Maurizio Mensi, Professor of Law & Economics at the National School of Administration (SNA), professor of Information & Communications Law at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome and co-head of @LawLab, a research centre on Cyber & Telecommunications-Media-Technology...

Interview with Fabiana Zollo, Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University and Research Fellow in the Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change.   We are now working to determine the state-of-the-art of science communication on social media. We are following and analysing data from more than...

Interview with Sarah Rachael Davies, from the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.   Journalism generally is undergoing significant structural changes, as legacy media find it harder to survive. Traditional science reporting is under...

Interview with Anja Bechmann, Professor of Media Studies and Director at DATALAB - Center for Digital Social Research.     Regarding SOMA, your research will look at psychological principles relating to disinformation. Can you elaborate on that?   Anja Bechmann: The ‘fake news’ discussion revolves around...