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Our right hemisphere is for creativity, and the left is for rational thinking. It’s an urban myth that stems from a classical view of how our brain works, namely that we have several brain regions that all have a specific function. Even…

Academics regularly face threats, harassment and hate speech. To address this issue, Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) are launching the…

NeurotechEU is the European University Alliance in Brain and Technology aiming to build a trans-European network of excellence in brain research and technologies to increase the competitiveness of European education, research, economy,…

The new Living Planet Report 2022 of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reveals that populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by an average of 69% since 1970. The report highlights the stark outlook of…

Children of higher-educated parents are also more severely impacted by adverse events such as divorce or child abuse. This is the conclusion of the PhD research of Carlijn Bussemakers, who is defending her PhD thesis at Radboud University…

Artificial Intelligence is playing a growing role in Dutch economy and society, and by extension also in education. This has led to the creation of the National Education Lab AI (Nationaal Onderwijslab AI, NOLAI), financed by the National…

Every day, around a hundred thousand staff and students travel to the campuses in Nijmegen, Arnhem and Velp. It is important to keep the campus accessible, and preferably in a sustainable and comfortable way. That is why the new mobility…

Starting in the final weeks of October until at least the end of 2022 the municipality of Nijmegen will accommodate 200 to 250 asylum seekers in a former riding school in Brakkenstein on the terrain of Radboud University. The Dutch…

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The finding helps us better understand the enigmatic and…

International knowledge workers and students, as well as their employers and knowledge institutions, now have a one-stop shop on the Radboud University campus for any matters related to making their stay in the region more pleasant. The…