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Verstraete predicts, via computer simulations, how materials behave at the quantum level under specific conditions, such as high temperatures or pressures.

Over the next three years, epidemiologist Bots will investigate whether heart failure medicines are equally effective and safe for women and men.

He received the award in appreciation for his distinguished and groundbreaking work in the field of heterogeneous catalysis.

With a special ceremony held today, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ biologist Corné Pieterse and sociologist Tanja van der Lippe received the Spinoza and Stevin Prize.

Taking antibiotics at a young age can make the body more prone to asthma and allergies later in life. This might be preventable by adding a simple supplement, concludes immunologist Olaf Perdijk from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ. His comprehensive study is published today in the journal Immunity.

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Female and male primates often form close bonds, but not purely out of affection. Close relationships usually evolve when there is a clear benefit for both parties, with protection and reproductive control playing key roles.

To make the plastic industry circular, we need innovative recycling technologies that yield a higher quality product. An interdisciplinary consortium of academic and industrial partners recently received funding to help achieve this.

Robert de Vries and his research associates will explore the feasibility of developing an early warning system for viruses at live animal markets.

We spoke to Sabine Corazon Oudt, UU alumnus and maths teacher, about her career, dreams and ambitions.

De Universiteit Utrecht benoemt microbioloog Laura Villanueva tot hoogleraar Mariene Microbiologie. Ze is daarmee de allereerste hoogleraar met deze leerstoel in Utrecht.

Celebrating its tenth annual symposium, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) welcomed over 200 participants. The symposium offered a chance to look back on a decade of progress in bioinformatics and explore what lies ahead.

Project raised awareness among citizens, schoolchildren and students of soil decomposition processes that play a significant role in climate and biodiversity .

One of the flagship initiatives of Pathways to Sustainability is Future Food Utrecht, where scientists and a wide range of external partners collaborate to transition toward a sustainable food chain. But what makes this transdisciplinary approach so impactful?

In her inaugural lecture, Prof. Laura Villanueva will illuminate the hidden world of marine microbes, and highlight how they influence our planet’s complex systems in remarkable and sometimes unexpected ways.

Sustainability-focused teaching materials encourage students to think critically about the life cycle of plastics and the environmental impact of chemical processes related to plastics.

WICS and the ICS Diversity Committee are working to make the Department of Information and Computing Sciences a more inclusive and welcoming place for everyone.

Jonas Lembrechts: “It is clear that if nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands do not decrease, plant diversity will become increasingly impoverished."

Equipped with advanced robotics, hyperspectral imaging, laser scanners, climate chambers, and other installations, the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) opens its doors today in Utrecht.

Making brains generate their own therapeutics could be a promising approach to slowing or even stopping the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Researcher Niels Reinders has shown in lab experiments that this approach could work.