Utrecht University

Dutch policy focuses too much on technological innovations and loses sight of the bigger picture of a sustainable future when it comes to plastic. That is what Utrecht University researchers found after analysing the transition to a…

Hans Clevers, group leader at the Hubrecht Institute, received an honorary doctorate from the KU Leuven during a festive online award ceremony. Clevers was awarded the doctorate for the development of mini organs in the lab. These…

After a decades-long period of steady melting, the mass loss of Iceland’s glaciers has been slowing down since 2011. A new study shows that this slowdown is most likely caused by the development of the ‘Blue Blob’, a cooler spot in the…

During the CHARM-EU Rector’s Assembly that took place on 14 January 2022, CHARM-EU approved the integration of three new alliance partners: Åbo Akademi University from Finland and Würzburg University from Germany, and the upgrade of…

“For many reasons, meat is too cheap and people consume far too much of it," says Inge van den Bijgaart external linkof the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). "If you look at the real price of meat, you also have to include…

By re-implementing an existing calculation technique for signal processing, Utrecht computer scientists have succeeded in speeding up the technique by a factor of one hundred, without loss of quality. This can enable considerable…

Decades-old ice in Northern and Southern Pole regions contain significant amounts of nanoscale plastic particles. Studying ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, scientists have identified several types of nanoplastic particles,…

Serious doubt has arisen regarding the common belief that the oldest existing maps of the continent of Africa were made by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. Research at Utrecht University has shown that their knowledge and…

For the first time, a research team has used deep learning – a type of artificial intelligence – to simulate the future evolution of glaciers at a regional scale. Glaciers do not evolve in a constant manner through time. The ability to…

Polar regions are regarded as some of the last areas on Earth that are pristine and relatively untouched by human influences. Yet, both North and South polar ice appear to contain significant amounts of nanoplastics, or plastic particles…