Utrecht University

The New Utrecht School receives support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to develop a course in Medical Humanities, Embodiment and Creative Arts. An international project to develop this new hybrid…

About 20 tons of polystyrene and another 5 tons of PET is floating in the Wadden Sea, in the form of invisible nano and micro particles. That's the figure UU and NIOZ researchers calculate this month in the journal Science of the Total…

The NWO KIC call aims to gain more knowledge and understanding of how mission-driven innovation systems work and can be scaled up and accelerated. The research offers insights into the intermediate steps needed to move from innovation to…

The European Research Council (ERC) has granted prof. Barbara Vis from Utrecht University School of Governance (USG) a Consolidator Grant for the research project entitled ‘Politicians under Radical Uncertainty: How Uncertain Phenomena…

On Tuesday, July 5th, Defence staff found a dead humpback whale off the coast of Vlieland. Based on injuries to the tail, researchers could determine that it was the same humpback that had been swimming off our coast since the end of May.…

Many countries have made a commitment to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by or around 2050. If some sectors have residual emissions, these must be compensated for by removing CO2 from the air and storing it. This can be…

The Dutch Research Council has awarded fifteen experienced, Utrecht-based researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros. The grant enables them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up their own research group in the…

Below the rivers they say 'friet', above they say 'patat'. In the 15th century BC, this boundary was quite different - and not only because the potato was not introduced to the region until the 18th century AD. In the 15th century BC, the…

A new study of the temperature of ancient oceans shows that the deep Atlantic Ocean was once a balmy 20 °C - , similar to the surface of the modern Mediterranean. Scientists say the new data, which covers the last 60 million years, shows…

New research by geoscientists of Utrecht University shows how climate change can trigger runaway algal blooms in the oceans. The researchers discovered that during intense periods of climate change almost no phosphate, a key nutrient, was…