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Kim Kuypers is associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience in het department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University. Her research mainly focusses on MDMA and psychedelics, and what their effects are on cognition, creativity, homones and the underlying brain mechanisms.

Is associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience in het department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University. Her research mainly focusses on MDMA and psychedelics, and what their effects are on cognition, creativity, homones and the underlying brain mechanisms.

A team of scientists, including several from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, have won the Ig Nobel Prize.

Swimming tiny robots may offer new ways to deliver cancer drugs exactly where they are needed most, making new treatments possible.

The vast majority of animal experiments involving joint cartilage repair in scientific journals is incompletely reported.

The relatively new Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University has funded four brand-new PhD positions.

During warm summers, the news media frequently reports on mortality among aquatic birds and fish as a result of botulism.

When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition's Brain & Law event.

Three PhD students of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will start with a Mosaic 2.0 grant of NWO for their PhD research.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded eight researchers from Nijmegen a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will allow them to develop an innovative line of research and build up their own research group for the next five years. Vidi is aimed at excellent researchers who have been producing successful research for a number of years since obtaining their PhD.

Showering, cleaning, flushing toilets, and industrial production are all processes that use a great deal of water.

Why do people exhibit social behaviour and what explains the evolution of such behaviour? It is a subject that has occupied Matthijs van Veelen for many years now.

Pernette Verschure has been appointed professor by special appointment of Functional Dynamics of the Epigenome at the UvA's Faculty of Medicine (UvA-Amsterdam UMC) as of 1 July 2021.

Six UvA and Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) researchers who recently received their doctorates have been given Rubicon grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Sophie Blinker, a double Master's student in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, has conducted research into a specific protein in bacterial spores to contribute to food safety.

Daniel Pérez Pinedo, graduate of the MSc Biological Sciences at the UvA, is the winner of this year's East-West Seed Graduation Prize for Plant Sciences.

The A wing of Science Park 904 has a remarkable sight: the skeleton of a young African elephant. 'Ah, Bob the elephant', says neurobiologist Taco Werkman fondly.