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Researchers have shown that most of Svalbard’s glaciers have lost their protective firn layer. The results are published in Nature Communications.

Prof. Chris Van Den Broeck (Physics) is one of the scientists involved in the research.

Publication in Nature Physics

Van Sebille develops software that models ocean currents and can therefore map out the journey of plastic waste in the oceans.

During the Opening of the Academic Year 2020-2021, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ will award two honorary doctorates, to Valerie Masson-Delmotte and Hirokazu Yoshikawa.

Melting ice shelves do not directly impact sea levels, but their disappearance may cause land-based ice to flow into the sea, causing sea levels to rise.

The new technique can be used in a range of sectors, for example in the manufacture of medicines or removing microplastics from water.

Even if the climate cools, Greenland’s glaciers will continue to lose mass, climate researchers write in a series of three publications.

The new liquid crystals can switch their orientation under electric fields at ultra-fast speeds. The results are published today in Science.

The award is presented annually to an outstanding early career experimentalist in nuclear physics.