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Meet the Editorial team: Eva Murtzen

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An interview with Eva Murtzen, Senior Editor at RPI and Research Outreach, about her interests, background and work with the publication

Get to know Eva Murtzen, Senior Editor at Research Publishing International (RPI). She’s been working with Research Outreach since 2020 and hasn’t looked back! Can you start by telling us about your background and how you came to be working with RPI? I moved to Bristol just before the pandemic because my partner had found a position as a postdoc […]

For the love of chocolate

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A variety of chocolate bars, cocoa powder and cinnamon sticks. Chocolate is linked to endorphin release such as serotonin.

Chocolate. The feeling of delight triggered by a mouthful is familiar to many of us. Its visual aspect, its scent, its taste, the sound it makes when we bite into it, the sensation once in the mouth – chocolate provides an experience that activates all of our senses. Of course, not everyone loves chocolate, but most of us do. Some […]

Cactus: The new leather?

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An image of a prickly pear cactus with fruits growing from the top. This type of cactus is being used to develop plant-based alternatives to leather.

It’s widely known that the production of animal leather is very harmful to the environment, but leather is a staple of many industries. As an answer to this problem a variety of more eco-friendly leather alternatives have recently been developed. One of these is an organic material called Desserto®, made of nopal (or prickly pear) cactus. This alternative has the look and […]