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Utrecht University follows the developments in Israel and the Palestinian Territories* with great concern.

Open Science is an increasingly important part of conducting research. To increase the familiarity of the concept, the team of the Open Science Escape Room project (OSER) designed the online escape room Last Contact.

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away.

From 2024, the so-called Nutri-Score on food products will be introduced in the Netherlands. The scores (from green A to red E) give a visual indication of the healthiness of the products.

As of 15 October 2023, Irene Monasterolo has been appointed as Professor of Climate Finance at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the faculty of Geosciences.

Innovation researcher Dr Wouter Boon from the Faculty of Geosciences' Department of Sustainable Development has been appointed as Professor of Innovation and Transition Studies as of 1 November 2023.

These days, people are hard at work in the University Library, and the books are neatly organised and categorised for everyone who wants to use them.

This year's speech from the throne was complexly worded once again, analysis by linguists Leo Lentz and Henk Pander Maat shows. It contained many complicated and unfamiliar words, phrases, and constructions.

Utrecht University has decided to remove disposable cups from all coffee machines from 1 November. Specifically, this means that disposable cups will no longer come out of the coffee machines in the university's buildings.

Making solar cells more efficient, and developing sustainable insecticides with a zombie-making fungus: as of September, a second group of PhD candidates will start their research funded by the Science for Sustainability community at Utrecht University.

Amateur football clubs are vulnerable to (criminal) interference. The influence of, say, a major sponsor can be undermining if this sponsor makes certain demands, or if the club is too dependent on that one sponsor.

Wednesday 6 September sees the University Museum Utrecht - UMU open to the public again. 'The new UMU is the museum for everyone who is curious,' says director Femke den Boer.

Twenty-two promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (DRC).

Twenty-three promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (DRC).

This is the second blog in the series Simple steps towards FAIR code and software . In this blog, Stefano Rapisarda tells you why version control is so important and how you benefit from it.