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- Interdisciplinarity and Darwin’s Law - an analogyWhat do interdisciplinarity and Darwin's law have to do with each other? In this blog, dr. Amir Raoof discusses interdisciplinarity in the context of selection and mutation in species survival./en/news/interdisciplinarity-and-darwins-law-an-analogy
- Key role for ocean ecosystems in removing CO2New study by UU and NESSC researchers underlines important role of surface region of the ocean in dissolving calcium carbonates/en/news/key-role-for-ocean-ecosystems-in-removing-co2
- Mountains of the future: the collision of India, Somalia and MadagascarAround 200 million years in the future Somalia, Madagascar and India will collide with each other, thereby creating the Somalaya Mountains./en/news/mountains-of-the-future-the-collision-of-india-somalia-and-madagascar
- The underlying cause of plate tectonics?Mantle plumes might explain how a mosaic of tectonic plates was once formed./en/news/the-underlying-cause-of-plate-tectonics
- Disaster in largest lake everThe megalake fauna, which included dwarf whales and dolphins, evolved and thrived initially but were later nearly obliterated/en/news/disaster-in-largest-lake-ever
- Revision of dinosaur fossil: "You can do a lot more with a skeleton with today’s knowledge"Paleontologists revised the description a Patagosaurus fossil that was discovered in the 1970s. What were they able to research now, that wasn't possible before?/en/news/revision-of-dinosaur-fossil-you-can-do-a-lot-more-with-a-skeleton-with-todays-knowledge
- Study cements age and location of hotly debated skull from early human homo erectusA new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus—a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years./en/news/study-cements-age-and-location-of-hotly-debated-skull-from-early-human-homo-erectus
- Arwen Deuss wins NWO Athena AwardSeismologist Arwen Deuss receives the Athena Award, an award from NWO for remarkable female researchers who are role models for others./en/news/arwen-deuss-wins-nwo-athena-award
- Walk the dinosaur! New biomechanical model shows T. rex in a swinging gaitResearchers from the Netherlands have created a new approach to envision how dinosaurs walked./en/news/walk-the-dinosaur-new-biomechanical-model-shows-t-rex-in-a-swinging-gait
- Deep Atlantic Ocean used to be 20 °C in past ‘greenhouse climate’The deep Atlantic Ocean used to have a temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius, according to a study by Martin Ziegler./en/news/deep-atlantic-ocean-used-to-be-20-degc-in-past-greenhouse-climate
- Tiny Toothed Terrors tell Temporal Tales of Tasting Tempting TreatsExtreme adaptability to new diets likely has been a key factor in the longevity of the group/en/news/tiny-toothed-terrors-tell-temporal-tales-of-tasting-tempting-treats
- Geologists unravel plate tectonic chain reactionCan collisions of tectonic plates set off a global chain reaction? They can, says a study by Douwe van Hinsbergen and his team./en/news/geologists-unravel-plate-tectonic-chain-reaction
- Large difference in role of iron between oceans near Greenland and AntarcticaThough a lack of iron is a factor limiting algal growth in the oceans, more dissolved iron in the ocean East of Greenland due to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet does not lead to more algae there./en/news/large-difference-in-role-of-iron-between-oceans-near-greenland-and-antarctica
- PhD researcher provides ways to determine methane emissions on landNadine Smit, researcher at the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has discovered new chemical tracers to investigate the presence of terrestrial bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane./en/news/phd-researcher-provides-ways-to-determine-methane-emissions-on-land
- Asteroid named after planetary scientist Inge Loes ten KatePlanetoid (563318) = 2016 CD144 will henceforth be known as (563318) ten Kate, after planet scientist and astrobiologist Inge Loes ten Kate./en/news/asteroid-named-after-planetary-scientist-inge-loes-ten-kate
- The appearance of hard teeth: rise of the predators?An international team of palaeontologists sectioned the first skeletons of vertebrates to reveal their life cycle and the positions these marine animals occupied in the Earth’s earliest foodwebs./en/news/the-appearance-of-hard-teeth-rise-of-the-predators
- Sea level reconstructed back to 540 million years ago using ice caps estimation and plate tectonicsA new method has enabled us to determine the global sea level up to 540 million years ago./en/news/Sea-level-up-to-540-million-years-ago
- Nominate your student for the Migration and Societal Change Best Master Thesis AwardTo recognize and promote excellence in student research as well as awareness in our field, the focus area Migration and Societal Change awards the best master’s thesis./en/news/nominate-your-student-for-the-migration-and-societal-change-best-master-thesis-award
- Jack Middelburg elected as AGU FellowJack Middelburg (dept. of Earth Sciences) has been elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow/en/news/jack-middelburg-elected-as-agu-fellow
- Inge Loes ten Kate appointed as Professor by special appointment for Planetary Sciences and AstrobiologyInge Loes ten Kate appointed as Professor by special appointment for Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology/en/news/inge-loes-ten-kate-appointed-as-professor-by-special-appointment-for-planetary-sciences-and-astrobiology