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On the 12 of January a large number of parties involved in the development of batteries in the Netherlands - small companies, multinationals and knowledge institutes - attended the kick off of the BatteryNL consortium.

The lights are coming back on, in and on the Van Unnik Building. On 11 January 2023, work will start on the Van Unnik Building.

Sports clubs and certainly amateur football clubs have become increasingly diverse in terms of ethnic composition in recent decades.

There have been times over the past two weeks - as conservationists, scientists, businesses, indigenous people and governments gathered in Montreal, Canada, for the COP15 summit - that all hope of a new global agreement to protect and restore nature seemed lost.

Plans devised for new policies at the climate summit in Egypt should first be examined for risky 'side effects', researchers Pien Barnas and Rak Kim argue.

We have too much sand and silt in the waterways in the Dutch Wadden Sea and Westerschelde. To keep these waterways accessible for ships and ferries, a lot of dredging is done.

Sharing content on social networks can create privacy concerns: others could easily share your picture or other personal information without your permission.

A cat with its own Twitter account, advertisements featuring a dog for a car brand, or horses in a movie: we see lots of animals in the media.

The Hoe'Zo! Show by earth scientist Lennart de Groot (UU) and neuroscientist Barbara Braams (VU Amsterdam) receives an ENW Communication Initiative Award.

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.

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.

Dutch Railways (NS) employees may have come into contact with chromium-6 between 1970 and 2020. It is not known exactly how often or how much this happened.

Six researchers at Utrecht University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.  The European Research Council awarded the €1.5 million grant to  Yang Yao , Frederik Verweij , Daan Weits , Niko Wanders , Floris Schuiling and  Daan van Uhm.

The Royal Library (KB) in The Hague has selected historian and media scholar Jesper Verhoef as KB Researcher-in-Residence 2023 .

Researchers give insights in why they join the Programming Café of RDM Support  The Programming Café is held every last Wednesday of the month between 3 and 5 p.m. at Utrecht Science Park.

Utrecht scientists developed the OceanParcels computer program that shows how plastic, bacteria and other particles move around the ocean.

It was fifty years ago this week that Utrecht physicists started giving a practicum with radioactive substances at secondary schools.

A fungus that turns ants into zombies sometimes becomes the victim of other fungal species itself.

Getting involved in the public debate as a scientist provides valuable interaction, but sometimes leads to intimidation, threats and hate reactions.

Climate change is not leaving rich countries untouched. Researchers from Utrecht University have mapped what will happen to the Netherlands at two and at five metres of sea level rise if we only maintain the current water management system and do not take additional measures.