Earth & Climate

The world’s longest cave just got longer this month

The cave turns out to be almost 13 kilometers longer than expected. The famous Mammoth Cave, located in the US state of Kentucky, is the...

How it crashed in the solar system

The inferno kept coming: devastating impacts shaped the history of the earth. (Image: solarseven / iStock) When celestial bodies became cosmic bombs: In the...

Photo worth seeing: Dangerous roads

These chimpanzees manage to cross the jungle road in Guinea unmolested. But for many of their conspecifics, the roads built into the forests...

Corona crisis is not the breakthrough that the climate needs so badly

Emissions are rising again. And the 'green recovery' that many hoped for after this far-reaching crisis is nowhere to be seen. When the corona...

Climate change endangers the basis of the polar food web

Researchers take phytoplankton samples from the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: Katrin Schmidt) Depending on the temperature of the sea water, the plankton in the oceans...

Early bird with expensive sex appeal

On the left the fossil of Yuanchuavis kompsosoura (Image: Gao Wei) and on the right an artist's depiction of the Cretaceous bird (Image: Haozhen...

Cautious excitement among physicists: New CERN data defy the Standard Model

The data cannot be explained by our current laws of nature. There is a huge particle accelerator on the French-Swiss border – underground – the...

Scientists come up with a synthetic cell that can divide

The cell – equipped with computer-designed DNA – should provide more insight into the basic processes that underlie life. Five years ago, scientists created a...

Can this hydrogen jet make aviation really go green?

The Delft students who built the plane themselves and will send it into the air this year, fervently hope so. In 2018, the Dutch transport...

We obey robots better after a tender touch

Research shows that we apparently like to be touched by robots. In fact, we are even more likely to follow their advice afterwards. What...

‘Vegan spider silk’ possible sustainable alternative to plastic

It is plant-based, sustainable, scalable and incredibly strong. And thus a promising solution to the comprehensive plastic problem. Pollution from single-use plastics is one...

Brits want to build a 50-meter-deep swimming pool for astronauts

It should be the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world that astronauts, for example, can make grateful use of in preparation for...

The world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge is now in Amsterdam

It's living science. Everyone who walks, runs or cycles across the bridge contributes to the collection of important information about the construction. It is...

Scientists discover new liquid phase in glass

"It's a new kind of material." These are the words of researcher Zahra Fakhraai. Together with her team, she discovered a liquid phase that...

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