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.
Only those with serious eye problems would overlook Utrecht's newest tribute to ophthalmologist Franciscus Cornelis Donders. Unveiled today, the mural is the fifth in the Utrecht Wall Formulas series.
Several hundred million kg of Dutch plastic waste remain off the radar. That applies to both plastic waste within the Netherlands and Dutch plastic waste that is exported to other countries.
Astronomers have found strong evidence of ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, which probably come from pairs of supermassive black holes at the centre of merging galaxies.
The new insights are vital to improve strategies for greenhouse gas mitigation, and improve the countries’ emission reports requested annually by the United Nations.
“My company operates with the latest academic knowledge. Although many questions are still unanswered, we have developed enough methods which are suitable for application in the real world.”
The Institute for Theoretical Physics is excited to announce that Prof. Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania) will be the (visiting) Kramers Professor.