The NWO’s CAS research programme aims to help people engage in injury-free sports. Recently, the participants met at Papendal. What has been achieved in five years?
Promising dinosaur eggs landed under the micro-CT scanner at CEG in mid-March. The outcome prompted the request for a follow-up study on dinosaur chicks.
Time to put out Prometheus’ flame? (Illustration: Marjolein van der Veldt) After five thousand years of lighting fires as the main means of generating energy, it is high time to finally switch to solar energy. This was said by prof. Miro Zeman, head of the department for sustainable electrical energy at the…
University lecturer Bieke Cattoor (ABE) is one of 10 scientists installed as members of The Young Academy on Tuesday 28 April. What does this mean for her?
Should TU Delft cut ties with the fossil fuel industry? Activists and people from industry, politics and the media discussed this at the Sustainability Debate on 25 April.
Blok and Taebi in Climate Council The council of ministers has set up a Scientific Climate Council (WKR) to advise the government and parliament on climate policy, solicited and unsolicited. Professor of environment and sustainability Jan Willem Erisman (Leiden University) was appointed chairman on 1 March and a few weeks later the nine…
Universitair docent Bieke Cattoor (BK) is een van de tien wetenschappers die dinsdag 28 april geïnstalleerd worden als lid van De Jonge Akademie. Wat betekent dat voor haar?
Scientists see the latest report by the IPCC UN climate commission as a final warning. How does PhD student and climate researcher Sophie de Roda Husman hold out hope?
Dutch only Microscopiespecialisten Bernd Rieger en Sjoerd Stallinga (faculteit Technische Natuurwetenschappen) verzorgen zondag 26 maart de Van Leeuwenhoeklezing (in het Nederlands) in Theater De Veste. Ze zullen vergelijkingen maken tussen wat Van Leeuwenhoek driehonderd jaar geleden zag en de huidige stand van de techniek. Moderne lichtmicroscopen, lichtgevende moleculen, getunede lasers en computeralgoritmen maken…
