by Jamie Campos, April 13 2022   A pair of skiers glide down a hill, the guide in the lead looks intently at his partner, assessing her condition. As the hill rounds out, they continue to ski in formation and the guide barks an order, “Right!” As they come to the bottom of the 12.5km…

Coverage and portrayal of disabled professional athletes in the media By Mira Innemee, 14 April 2022. You can probably name at least one athlete that won a medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Peking this year. But what if I ask you to name an athlete that won a medal at the Winter Paralympic…

Recycling with the help of micro-organisms By Esmée Janssen, 6 April 2022 Last autumn, the very first waste processing plant to use plastic-degrading enzymes from fungi opened in France. This method is revolutionary because the enzymes convert the plastic back into the building blocks it is made of. From these building blocks you can produce…

By Maaike Stok, 6 april 2022 At the end of March 2022, it was big news that microplastics had been found in human blood. This discovery by Dutch and Canadian researchers is the first proof that the small plastics can end up in our bloodstream. In this way, the plastics could end up in all…

By Jeanette Morren, 4 april 2022 The first week of March was a historical one: aimed to end plastic pollution, representatives from 175 countries agreed to forge a legally-binding treaty before the end of 2024. This was discussed at the UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi. The head of this assembly even called the treaty the…

By Emma van den Bergh, 4 April 2022 There’s more plastic in our sea than there are stars in the galaxy! This English slogan is about the plastic soup: the collective name for all the plastic that accumulates in the great waters and proverbially indicates that there is more plastic there than stars in our…

Ireen Wüst, Sven Kramer, and Suzanne Schulting are names that probably sound familiar to you, they are all Dutch professional athletes that participated in the Winter Olympics that just finished. But what about Barbara van Bergen, Jeroen Kampschreur or Lisa Bunschoten? Probably not, but they are professional athletes as well! In two weeks, they will be competing…

Welcome! We are a group of master students with different backgrounds, but with a shared passion: science communication. Our goal is to use all that we learn from science to inspire and motivate others. In this project we focus on a major problem in today’s world: the excessive amount of plastic, which causes global warming, thick…

It can hardly have escaped your notice this fall, energy prices are skyrocketing. Gas and electricity are becoming much more expensive, in some households as much as two hundred euros per month! What can you do about that now? One solution is to stop using natural gas and other fossil fuels throughout the Netherlands. An…

Energy Transitions By Valentina Bravo               In the train last weekend, the woman sat in front of me got fined because her phone ran out of battery, and she was unable to show her e-ticket – understandable at 8pm. According to the Volkskrant, oil and gas prices are at…