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When tectonic plates collide and thrust over each other and cause an earthquake, a tsunami can occur. That should not happen in an earthquake where the plates slide past each other. And yet that was exactly what happened on 28 September…

Virtual characters are becoming increasingly lifelike, which makes them more and more engaging to interact with. Utrecht University recently opened its Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Lab, equipped with the latest technology available…

Marta de Ruijter-Villani, Assistant Professor at Clinical Sciences and UMCU, receives a ZonMw Open Competition grant together with Geert Kops and Takashi Hiiragi. Attached to the grant is a sum of €770,000, which the researchers will use…

It seemed like such a nice idea: biomass plants would reduce our dependence on coal and natural gas and were therefore given a key role in the energy transition in the 2019 Dutch Climate Agreement. However, three years later, not only do…

This week, the biodiversity conference takes place in Montreal, after it was postponed by Covid-19 in the Chinese city of Kunming last May. That postponement was worrying, says Professor of Land Use and Biodiversity Merel Soons, because…

Agriculture is one of the leading causes of human induced land-use change globally. Our food consumption and production, especially in industrialised countries, is thereby damaging the planet. Over a third of the world’s total land…

To help UU researchers make their work more open, two funds will start accepting applications from 15 November 2022 onwards. The FAIR Research IT Innovation Fund external link awards grants between 25,000 or 50,000 for staff who want to…

On 24 November, the 'Keuzegids' (Selection Guide) Universities 2023 was published. In the Keuzegids, 20 UU Bachelor's degrees are rated best compared to similar programmes at other Dutch universities. In addition, 17 UU Bachelor's…

In total, more than a hundred authors contributed to ‘Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland’ (‘Even More Global History of the Netherlands’), editor Professor of Social and Economic History Lex Heerma van Voss says. 21 of them are…

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a higher chance of suffering from brain-related problems such as anxiety, depression and memory problems. PhD candidate Charlotte Pelgrim discovered that inflammation in the…