Taller plant species are taking over in the Arctic Until now, the tundra was mainly the domain of low-growing plants, but larger plant species, especially shrubs, are slowly taking over this cold...
RETHINK encourages transformation of the science communication system The quality of the conversation about science - traditionally the task of journalists and universities - is increasingly difficult to monitor due to...
Nice sunny days grow into heat waves, rain into floods: summer weather stalling An international team of scientists, among who is VU climate researcher Dim Coumou, made an overview of recent studies into stagnant and therefore extreme...
AURA TIMEN HAS BEEN APPOINTED ENDOWED PROFESSOR AT ATHENA INSTITUTE The Executive Board of the VU appointed Aura Timen as endowed professor to the chair of ‘Responses to communicable diseases in global health’, starting 1...
New technology to stabilize enzymes VU researchers Marta Pelay-Gimeno, Sven Hennig and Professor Tom Grossmann (AIMMS) publish their new method to stabilize enzymes to increase their...
NWO Veni grants for Physics and Computer Science Three young scientists from the Faculty of Science receive a Veni grant worth 250,000 Euros from NWO.
