The TV programme Nieuwsuur has revealed that Dutch universities keep incomplete and chaotic records of their professors’ ancillary activities and financial interests.
De grootste wetenschappelijke doorbraken zijn te verwachten bij samenwerking tussen disciplines, stelt Eppo Bruins, de nieuwe voorzitter van adviesraad AWTI.
Only with the immediate speeding up on climate action across the world can we prevent the planet from heating up disastrously, warns IPCC. “The next few years are critical.”
Democracy is under fire. “We have let ourselves be lulled into passivity,” says Philosopher Jeroen van den Hoven who advises the European Commission on ethics and technology.
Does the new ideal of recognition and rewards in science damage the Netherlands’ competitive position? Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf thinks it does not.
The war echoes in space. ESA cannot access the European Robotic Arm as it is attached to the Russian ISS. Paul Breedveld earned his doctorate with this robotic arm in 1996.
Research, lectures, management. Allocate scientists’ work more effectively, so that they can concentrate on what they are really good at, says the chair of The Young Academy.
Last Sunday morning, students put the finishing touches to their robot. They pulled an all-nighter for it at the Robotics Student Association hackathon.
In 1957, the recently renovated nuclear reactor of the RID was an example of just-conquered nuclear energy. How do we see the field more than sixty years later?
