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About the episode We keep looking for it: the best way to stay healthy. Sport and muscle strength are important factors in this and new research shows that we may be able to build this muscle strength with much less effort. Whether you train with weights at home or in the gym: most people opt for well-known basic exercises, such …

In order to save energy and at the same time “give room for darkness”, the municipality of Heerenveen and the province of Fryslân will remove around 100 streetlights on the Schoterlandseweg between Oudeschoot and Hoornsterzwaag in the coming weeks . The work began on Monday and will take place outside the agglomeration. There are currently 175 lampposts over a length …

Temporary contracts with poor conditions at the university make work very difficult for researchers and teachers. This is the red line in a relationship with personal stories. Researchers and educators worry so much about their future that they are stilts the national campaign group Casual Academy in a report published this week. The number of temporary contracts in universities grows …

About the episode Scientists can zoom even deeper into the cells of our body. This makes all kinds of important research possible. Only at this level is it difficult to simultaneously study the interaction between cells and the composition of the tissue as a whole. A group of researchers wanted to change that. Can’t we map tissues in such a …

Our Peperbuske, you can’t go around Bergen op Zoom without seeing it. But did you know that there is also something special halfway up the tower? There is now a plan to turn this space, the tower room, into a place for visitors. Ad is loading… “De Peperbus is more than a bell tower,” according to Tom van Eekelen of …

The project looks at the interaction between cats and humans. To do this research, you need to collect lots of submitted cat videos, watch them and create a database of them. Of course, that sounds ideal. But is that it? “A lot of people think that you watch several different movies in one day,” project manager Marjo van Koppen tells …

WINTERSWIJK – Paint and glass wholesaler Verglasco can move to the railway area of ​​Winterswijk. The municipality wants to make room on 3.2 hectares of undeveloped land for three construction-related companies and a health center in Marga Klompé. One of the most important pillars of the plan is the relocation of Verglasco. Late last year, the company submitted an application …

The IceCube detector in Antarctica.Martin Wolf/NSF statuette The discovery, published this week in Science, according to experts, is a taste of what awaits us in the promising field of multi-messenger astronomy in the years to come. ‘This is an important step,’ says particle physicist Suzan du Pree of the Nikhef Institute in Amsterdam. “It’s super exciting.” Astronomers have traditionally studied …

Amsterdam Castle is no newcomer to Amsterdam North. Since 2017, this urban winery has been harvesting the best grapes in Europe and making more than 20 different wines on its own soil. In Amsterdam, for Amsterdam. After moving to a former meat processing company around the corner, the winery has expanded with a culinary hotspot in addition to its tasting …

About the episode We humans use our sight and touch for many things without really thinking about it. Holding a cup for example, or… folding laundry. It is much less obvious for robots. There is a huge amount of data involved in processing tactile feedback and most robots only work with visual information to determine where something is and how …