Our compatriot Jean-Pascal van Ypersele has campaigned extensively, including on Twitter (now X), and really wants the job. He participated once in 2015. Despite his experience as a former vice-chair of the IPCC, he saw Hoesung Lee of South Korea prevail. Van Ypersele is affiliated with the University of Louvain-la-Neuve as a professor. He speaks French, but in addition to …

25 jul 2023 om 00:01 Flax and hemp fibers can make construction much more environmentally friendly, researchers from ABN AMRO have concluded. For this, more must be grown, for example in Eastern Europe. There are more crops with good properties, but few plants are usable on a large scale. “Linen and hemp are exceptions,” write the researchers. So almost any …

24 jul 2023 om 14:35 Scientists have discovered a huge galaxy that appears to contain little or no dark matter. While almost the entire universe would be made up of dark matter and dark energy. This is the first time astronomers have seen such a thing. Named NGC 1277, the galaxy is located 220 million light-years from the Milky Way. …

Science•23 Jul ’23 20:00Author: Samuel Hanegreefs In the ‘Q&AI’ section, in which a question is posed to the artificial intelligence, the chatbot indicates that Mars is currently the planet where the chances of extraterrestrial life seem to be the greatest. “That’s partly true,” says aerospace expert Rob van den Berg. This is perhaps the ultimate question that scientists, and many …

Arne Slot on 1908 in 2023 Photo: © ProShots Arne Slot once again expressed his desire for offensive reinforcements. In conversation with international soccer he says that’s where the key lies in terms of improvement from last season. Slot hopes that new acquisitions will bring a little more to Feyenoord. “I think the chance for us to really improve from …

DThe neighborhood was invited to get to know the inhabitants, social organizations and the building. The youngsters already received their keys last March. The Municipality of Amsterdam, which rents the social spaces in Stadgenoot, delivered the decorated spaces last month. Decent work In addition, the special cooperation between the municipality, Stadgenoot and social organizations such as Combiwel, The Beach, Stadsboerderij …

Many people tend to take a white or light-colored shirt from the closet when the weather is hot. But if you look at the wardrobe of the peoples of the desert, the colors are often dark or black. Exercise physiologist Maria Hopman decided to investigate. She and her science team rolled up their sleeves on the final four-day Nijmegen walks …

About the episode With each cell division, the risk of cancer increases. A long-lived species like the elephant should therefore develop cancer more often than a short-lived species like the mouse. But in 1975 it had already been shown that this was not the case and that there was little variation in cancer risk between animal species. There are variations …

Splinter Chabot.Image Brunopress Splinter Chabot won the Rainbow 100 election in 2021 and 2022, a public award from the Hebban.nl reader community and queer lifestyle magazine WinqNamewith his book Confetti rain. Despite the negative judgment of literary critics, his novel is today If heaven has enough room voted the most beautiful LGBTQ book of 2022. Second place goes to Pim …

Students at TU Delft have developed a robotic suit that allows a spinal cord injured patient to walk again. In a previous example, the patient still needed crutches for balance, but this is no longer necessary. The students call the exoskeleton the MARS VIII. While walking, a kind of noise appeared earlier in the brain of the ‘pilot’. The students …