SARS-CoV-2 virus particles can resist high physical forces. This determines partly their success, according to a publication of the new UU-professor Jan Lipfert in PNAS.
Even the High North can’t escape the global threat of plastic pollution. This alarming picture emerges from inventory of dozens of studies into microscopically small plastic particles in the Arctic region
Sanli Faez, Liesbeth van de Grift and Marjolijn Haasnoot participate in a national taskforce that will explore how Dutch climate researchers can join forces for a common agenda for climate research.
Marco van Leeuwen, researcher at Nikhef and the Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), will be the new spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at CERN. He will start in January 2023 for a period of three years.
Utrecht researchers have fully mapped out how much litter is washed up from the sea onto Dutch beaches, under which conditions it washes ashore and from where it originates.
On 24 March, the kick-off event for the new platform Science for Sustainability will take place. Master students Jamie and Tara spoke with René van Roij to find out why he took the initiative to start S4S.