No more dry eyes and painful joints
Earlier this year, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a grant to the research group of Prof. Henny van der Mei. The grant enabled her research group to study a common complaint among the elderly: dry eyes and painful joints.
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20 September 2019
Start of MOSAiC – the Greatest Arctic Research Expedition of All Time
After a decade of preparations, it’s finally time: on the evening of 20 September the German icebreaker Polarstern departs from the Norwegian port of Tromsø. Escorted by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, she will set sail for the Central Arctic...
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20 September 2019
Imagining Science
Noorderlicht and the University of Groningen (RUG) continue their collaboration in the ‘Imagining Science’ series. Each year they commission a photographer to depict a scientific research field in relation to the Noorderlicht festival-theme of the year...
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18 September 2019
New microscope shows the atomic structure of materials in stunning detail
A new transmission electron microscope (TEM) allows University of Groningen scientists to study the structure of materials in unprecedented detail. One of its unique abilities is to produce images of both heavy and very light atoms simultaneously. The...