Utrecht University

Fifty years after scientists predicted a new liquid crystalline phase, it has been observed by Utrecht researchers. The observations were made in model systems of colloidal rods, rod-like particles that are larger than molecules and…

Getting involved in the public debate as a scientist provides valuable interaction, but sometimes leads to intimidation, threats and hate reactions. That is why the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), NWO and KNAW have launched the…

The health and welfare of animals that produce our food is of great importance. Researchers from the University of Utrecht and the Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Nutrition (ILVO) in Flanders, among others, received…

The National Science Agenda (NWA) has awarded funding to Geo Tour de France and the Hoe?Zo! Show. The 150K given to both initiatives will enable them to develop further.Lennart de Groot, one of the initiators of the Hoe?Zo!Show, is…

On December 13th and 14th 2022, the CHARM-EU Alliance is hosting the public CHARM-EU Annual Conference. Participants will have the opportunity to take a look forward while also reflecting on the achievements of the CHARM-EU Alliance in…

Every year, 100,000 animals are mistreated in the Netherlands, estimates the National Expert Center for Animal Cruelty (LED). These include such things as broken bones, internal bleeding and head trauma. Yet the National Expert Center for…

A fungus that turns ants into zombies sometimes becomes the victim of other fungal species itself. In papers in the scientific journals Functional Ecology and Persoonia, Utrecht University microbiologist Charissa de Bekker and…

Last week, Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Iris Muis of the Utrecht Data School were invited to the European Parliament to talk about the Fundamental Rights & Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA). Together with Arthur Vankan and Janneke…

It was fifty years ago this week that Utrecht physicists started giving a practicum with radioactive substances at secondary schools. Today still, they visit half of all secondary schools in the Netherlands every year with this ionizing…

Increasing melt threatens to saturate the firn layer that covers the Greenland ice sheet. Saturation of this layer will dramatically increase global sea level rise, adding about 9 mm a year from the Greenland ice sheet alone (the current…