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What is air, and how do we know?

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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  • Lister, Lactic Fermentation.
  • A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Études sur la bière : ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable; avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation / par L. Pasteur.
  • Du 1er octobre 1897 au 1er octobre 1898 : spécialité de vins de Banyuls pour la pharmacie : vins rouges de table et de bouteille : pureté et fermentation garanties / Maison J. Monich Ainé.
  • Du 1er octobre 1897 au 1er octobre 1898 : spécialité de vins de Banyuls pour la pharmacie : vins rouges de table et de bouteille : pureté et fermentation garanties / Maison J. Monich Ainé.
  • Du 1er octobre 1897 au 1er octobre 1898 : spécialité de vins de Banyuls pour la pharmacie : vins rouges de table et de bouteille : pureté et fermentation garanties / Maison J. Monich Ainé.
  • Du 1er octobre 1897 au 1er octobre 1898 : spécialité de vins de Banyuls pour la pharmacie : vins rouges de table et de bouteille : pureté et fermentation garanties / Maison J. Monich Ainé.
  • A discourse upon prodigious abstinence: occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire demosell: proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat and drink. With an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / By John Reynolds. Humbly offered to the Royall society.
  • The preternatural state of animal humours described, by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation. And the cure of each particular cacochymia ... To this treatise are added two appendixes. I. About the nature of fevers ... II. Concerning the effervescence tumours, pains, and fluxes of humours ... expecially those in the gout and asthma ... of several cocochymia's [sic] / ... By the author of the ... [i.e. Sir John Floyer].
  • Mycolactine : a synergetic combination of bile extract, yeast, and lactic ferments.
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