Etiket: Science
Less pollution from ships than ever in the North Sea: never so many porpoises and seals spotted | Science & Planet
The number of pollution detected by ships in the North Sea is lower than ever. This is reported by Minister of the North Sea Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld) this…
Alarm! Honeybees threaten wild bees: why that’s bad news for our own food too | Science
About five or six years ago, panic broke out. Nearly half of all invertebrates, but especially bees and butterflies, were in danger of extinction. A lot of people took that…
Alps are getting greener due to warming | Science & Planet
The scientists analyzed satellite images taken since 1984. Plant growth above the treeline increased in 77 percent of the surveyed area. The driving force behind this development is climate change.…
Scientists claim largest plant in the world | Science
The plant of the species Posidonia australis was found by researchers at the University of Western Australia and Flinders University in the shallows of Shark Bay, the scientific journal Proceedings…
The war in Ukraine is also a blow to the knot in the Arctic Circle (and science in general)
Like other western countries, the Netherlands has severed scientific ties with Russia. This has far-reaching consequences for research around the Arctic Circle. ‘Climate change is happening very quickly there, and…
The Netherlands gets national center for science communication | news item
News item | 25-05-2022 | 17:30 Minister Dijkgraaf (OCW) wants us as a country to stand firmer for the scientific facts and those who proclaim them. This requires a solid…
Virologist concerned about monkeypox outbreaks: “New cases discovered in several countries. That is very unusual” | Science & Planet
Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans is beginning to worry about monkey pox outbreaks in several countries. “We have occasionally seen imported cases in the past, but normally they didn’t spread further,”…
NASA rover begins its “key research” to find life on Mars | Science
NASA’s Perseverance rover begins its most important part of its mission on Mars. On Tuesday, the six-wheeled robot will begin the ascent of an ancient delta in the crater where…
Merck share: Life Science is a strong driver of Merck
shares in this article indexes in this article from the Euro am Sonntag editorial team High demand for pharmaceuticals gave the chemical and pharmaceutical group Merck a boost at the…
How an Earth-sized telescope has been assembled to photograph black holes
So much the first photograph of a black hole ever captured, published in 2019, such as the portrait of Sagittarius A* in the center of the Milky Way, have been…