News overview 2024 - 2023
| Published on: | 06 September 2024 |
Welke rol speelt twijfel in de wetenschap? Deze vraag stond afgelopen zaterdagavond centraal tijdens het Twijfelachtig Spektakel in de circustent op Noorderzon.
| Published on: | 05 September 2024 |
Het tijdschrift National Geographic heeft het planetenpad in het Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer verkozen tot een van de tien mooiste wandelroutes van Nederland.
| Published on: | 31 May 2024 |
In de nacht van 3 op 4 juni 2024 stonden zes planeten - Mercurius, Mars, Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus en Neptunus - in een bijna rechte lijn aan de lucht.
| Published on: | 08 May 2024 |
University of Groningen chemists created an enzyme with boronic acid at its reactive centre. This approach can produce more selective reactions with boron, and allows the use of directed evolution to improve its catalytic power. The new-to-nature enzyme was presented in the journal Nature on 8 May.
| Published on: | 01 May 2024 |
Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen. However, making these motors do actual work proved to be a challenge. In a new paper, UoG scientists describe improvements that bring real-life applications closer.
| Published on: | 16 April 2024 |
A European team of astronomers has discovered the largest stellar black hole of the Milky Way.
| Published on: | 27 March 2024 |
Hoe beïnvloeden feromonen, de zogenaamde ‘communicatiemoleculen’ tussen individuen, ons gedrag? Wat zijn lentekriebels? Deze en andere vragen kwamen op 21 maart aan bod in het Kenniscafé.
| Published on: | 07 November 2023 |
On 7 November, the first full-colour images of the cosmos taken by ESA’s space telescope Euclid were presented. The University of Groningen is responsible for part of the data processing.
| Published on: | 03 October 2023 |
Astronomers at the University of Groningen are involved in the design and deployment of the European Extremely Large Telescope, while huge parts for this mega-telescope are being built at a special facility in Dwingeloo.
| Published on: | 27 September 2023 |
An international team of scientists has developed a method to detect thousands of lipid molecules that are displayed to the human immune system. This information can be used for the development of vaccines or anti-microbial treatments.
| Posted on: | 28 February 2023 |
Textbooks will tell you that in dividing cells, production of new DNA peaks during the S-phase, while production of other macromolecules, such as proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides, continues at more or less the same level. Molecular biologists at the University of Groningen, led by professor Matthias Heinemann, have now discovered that this is not true.
| Posted on: | 27 February 2023 |
University of Groningen biochemists have succeeded in resurrecting the ancestral genes of five detoxifying enzyms which are present in all tetrapods to show how their divergence in function has occurred.
| Posted on: | 23 February 2023 |
Intertidal areas are of greater worldwide importance to sharks and rays than previously thought. Researchers from the University of Groningen and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have discovered that intertidal areas—coastal areas with sand flats that fall dry at low tide—are important feeding grounds and hiding places for, for example, endangered species of shark and ray.
| Posted on: | 16 February 2023 |
University of Groningen scientists have now shown through direct measurements what the versatile polydopamine coatings really look like.
| Posted on: | 16 February 2023 |
Governments could help millions of people and save a lot of money with targeted energy subsidies. Different kinds of households around the world suffer in various ways from the exorbitant energy prices and need different kinds of support, states Klaus Hubacek from the University of Groningen in a new study that was published {today} in Nature Energy.
| Posted on: | 08 February 2023 |
Dutch organizations combine knowledge about controlling salinization in deltas in a new Institute
| Posted on: | 02 February 2023 |
Our society must end its addiction to oil and gas. This means that we need a new source of hydrocarbons, the carbon compounds from which fuels and many fossil-based materials are made.
| Posted on: | 26 January 2023 |
European Union consumers are 'exporting' negative environmental impacts to their Eastern European neighbours, whilst keeping the bulk of economic benefits linked to consuming goods and services, a new study reveals.
| Posted on: | 19 January 2023 |
At the University of Groningen, Jingxiu Xie combines her knowledge of catalysis and chemical engineering to produce kerosene from carbon dioxide.
| Posted on: | 18 January 2023 |
Conducting your research in the most environmentally friendly way possible, one might think that this is a common method for scientists. However, this is not the case yet. Thomas Freese, coordinator of the LEAF project and member of Green Labs, is trying to bring about change.
| Posted on: | 13 January 2023 |
Chemists from the University of Groningen have found a simple way to produce previously inaccessible chiral Z-alkenes, molecules that offer a significant synthetic short-cut for the production of bioactive molecules. Instead of eight to ten synthetic steps to produce these molecules, the new reaction can be done in three steps.
| Posted on: | 11 January 2023 |
A new study reveals that it would take 3 million years to recover the number of species that went extinct due to humans on Madagascar. However, if currently threatened species go extinct, recovering them would take more than 20 million years, much longer than what has previously been found on any other island.
| Posted on: | 09 January 2023 |
Students sometimes pull an all-nighter to prepare for an exam. However, research has shown that sleep deprivation is bad for your memory. Now, University of Groningen neuroscientist Robbert Havekes discovered that what you learn while being sleep deprived is not necessarily lost, it is just difficult to recall.