The new chair connects data science with childhood cancer research, and strengthens the collaboration between Utrecht University and the Princess Máxima Center.
Until now, the AMOC was thought to tip and collapse around +4°C of warming, but researchers at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht now show that the stability of the circulation also depends on how fast the climate is changing.
Plants can't run from danger, yet they have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Utrecht researchers have now discovered one of the clever tricks lettuce uses to defend itself against disease.
Twenty-nine promising young researchers from Utrecht are to receive a Veni grant from the NWO. This will enable them to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.