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DAMALS podcast, episode 29: The Delta Project

The Dutch have struggled with the sea since the Middle Ages. Over the centuries, they have been plagued by disastrous flood disasters. ...
Alan Cannon -
Earth & Climate

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...
Elijah Burt -
Health & Medicine

Counting Calories: Helpful Strategy or Unhealthy Compulsion?

Counting calories is still considered a helpful weight loss strategy. Here you can find out exactly how the technology works, what advantages and...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Earth & Climate

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...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Planet X may be closer than thought

But that still doesn't make it obvious that we'll be spotting the planet anytime soon. That can be read in a new study which has...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

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...
Ashton Edwards -
Biology

What happens to the microplastics in the soil?

How do plastic particles behave in the soil? (Image: Gabriel Sigmund / EDGE) In agriculture, large amounts of nano and microplastics get into the...
Elijah Burt -
History & Archaeology

Lost text of antiquity discovered

Analysis of a parchment with hidden remains of writing: Modern image processing methods make the original Greek text (red) visible. It was erased...
Alan Cannon -
Earth & Climate

An unusually large hole in the ozone layer appears to be forming over the South Pole right now

The hole is already bigger than Antarctica itself. The ozone layer is located in the stratosphere – at an altitude of about 40 kilometers. ...
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

Bones discovered in Morocco cautiously suggest that our ancestors were already making clothes 120,000 years ago

The processing of leather and fur may have played an important role in early humans' ability to migrate to colder parts of the world...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

When people listen carefully to a story together, their hearts start beating in sync

Their heartbeats appear to speed up or slow down at the same points during the story. We have known for some time that under certain...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Biology

Plant evolution took place in two stages

Individual parts of the flower of an African lily (Agapanthus africanus). (Image: Andrew Leslie) Plants today are of great diversity and complexity. It...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

CO2 emitted from Australian bushfires equals annual emissions from all global air traffic

It concerns more than 700 billion kilograms of CO2 that was pumped into the air during the devastating forest fires; nearly double Australia's...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

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...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

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...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

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...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

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...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

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...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Forget hard drives, in the future we will store our digital photos in synthetic DNA

All files, photos and data of everyone in the world can theoretically be stored in a coffee mug full of DNA. There are currently about...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

‘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...
Charlie Elliott -
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