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Eight pairs of trainers and litres of tea - The WUR programmer who walked the Silk Road
- Taking Marco Polo as his example, programmer Bart-Jan van Rossum set off for China from Istanbul. Wearing trainers, after expensive walking boots gave... 0 -
‘The meadow flowers must bloom again’ - David Kleijn argues for regional biodiversity projects
- Ecologists, farmers, water boards and provincial governments should set up ‘living labs’ to trial measures for promoting biodiversity in... 0 -
Vegetation as air con - Plants and trees will keep cities of the future cool
- Things can soon get pretty unpleasant in cities on a hot day. And then trees and shrubs in the right places help us keep our cool. Landscape architect... 0 -
Sweeper picks peppers (but not fast enough yet)
- Picking sweet peppers is still manual labour at present. But it is only a matter of time before robots such as Sweeper take over the job. Only the... 0 -
Living out of a suitcase
- Staying with friends, moving repeatedly or paying ridiculous rents. These are the only choices many foreign PhD students have now they no longer get... 0 -
Genes+environment = plant. New research centre for phenotyping starts up
- A complex interaction between genes and environment determines the characteristics of a plant. That interaction is the focus of a big new research... 0 -
Student society gets serious about sustainability: The bar gets greener
- Subjecting ‘green’ first-years to initiation rituals is going out of style. But going green is in. More and more student societies are... 1 -
Professor Katrien Termeer believes in incremental change: 'There are no simple solutions'
- She has never studied public administration and has spent a large part of her career outside the academic world. Nonetheless, Katrien Termeer has... 0 -
Sharing the truth - The promise of blockchains: more transparent production chains
- In our global market economy, it’s not easy to find out where your grapes or orange juice came from and whether their production was... 0 -
Dutch sorghum - Tropical crop can replace maize as animal feed
- Grass and maize dominate Dutch cattle feed. But now a newcomer has appeared: sorghum. Feed specialist Gerrit Kasper is working on turning this cereal... 1