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Mangabey monkeys profit from nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees
20 July 2018
Mangabey monkeys exhibit peculiar foraging behaviour by scavenging on the energy-rich remnants of nuts cracked by chimpanzees and red river hogs. This allows them to obtain the inside of nuts, which they would not ...
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Climate warming speeds up migration of barnacle goose
19 July 2018
Climate warming is most rapid in the Arctic and the general notion is that migratory birds have to arrive earlier on the Arctic breeding grounds to let their chicks benefit from the earlier start of spring. A recent ...
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How marine algae cope with changing ocean conditions
17 July 2018
Human activities are changing the ocean on a global scale, with seawater in some regions becoming warmer, more acidic, and less well mixed. One possible result of reduced ocean mixing is that nutrients, which act ...
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Ecosystem shows resilience to prolonged human modification
16 July 2018
Nineteenth century explorers who visited the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes regularly referred to the landscape as a ‘pristine’ wilderness. What they were, in fact, observing was the recovery on an environment ...
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Veni grant awarded to 27 UvA and AMC-UvA researchers
16 July 2018
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants worth up to €250,000 to 27 UvA and AMC-UvA researchers who recently obtained their doctorate. The grants give promising young ...
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Veni grant for astronomers Emily Petroff and Alexander Mushtukov
16 July 2018
Dr. Emily Petroff and Dr. Alexander Mushtukov have both been awarded a Veni grant to continue their research at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy.
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Veni grant for physicists Janne-Mieke Meijer and Matteo Biagetti
16 July 2018
Physicists Janne-Mieke Meijer and Matteo Biagetti both received an NWO Veni grant. The grant provides the laureates with the opportunity to further develop their own ideas for a period of three years.
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Rhesus monkeys sense isochrony in rhythm, but not the beat
16 July 2018
Although monkeys seem to notice regularity in rhythmic sounds, they are not able to detect the actual beat. This is the finding of a new study by researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the National ...
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Sustainable and very selective biocatalytic conversion of aldehydes to carboxylic acids
13 July 2018
The Biocatalysis research group led by Dr Francesco Mutti of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has developed the first viable biocatalytic 'green' process for the ...
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Four new University Professors to study impact of artificial intelligence
12 July 2018
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has announced that it will appoint four new University Professors. The University Professors will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and the societal questions surrounding this ...
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Supramolecular nanoconcentrators boost performance of water oxidation catalyst
12 July 2018
By applying their 'nanoconcentrator' concept of functionalized self-assembled nanospheres to a ruthenium-based water oxidation catalyst, researchers from the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for ...
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Computational scientists contribute to coral reef research
10 July 2018
There are major concerns that the current climate change and ocean acidification is endangering growth of reef-building corals. In this light, Eva Deutekom and Jaap Kaandorp of the UvA Computational Science Lab are ...
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Study reveals optimal charging infrastructure rollout strategy
10 July 2018
A study conducted on the largest EV charging transactions dataset worldwide revealed insight in what rollout strategy for charging points can best be applied by policy makers.
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Good rating for Biomedical Sciences Bachelor's and Master's programmes
10 July 2018
Both the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam received a final rating of 'Good' in the reaccreditation recently concluded by the Accreditation Organisation of the ...
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NWO TOP Grant for Han Peters and Guus Regts
10 July 2018
An NWO TOP1-grant worth up to € 500,000 has been awarded to Han Peters and Guus Regts for their project ‘Methods from complex dynamics for locating zeros of graphs polynomials'. In the project, two PhD students will ...
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Bachelor workshop results in publication on neutrino decay
9 July 2018
Usually, scientific publications come from experienced researchers at the PhD level and beyond. Occasionally, however, also students – even bachelor students – succeed in making interesting contributions to science. ...
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Antimicrobial elements discovered as possible leads to new antibiotics
9 July 2018
The rise of antibiotic resistance in microorganisms is a concerning situation and leads to the necessity to develop novel antimicrobial medicines. Microbiologist Soraya Omardien, together with her colleagues from ...
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Global expansion of cyanobacterial blooms
9 July 2018
Last week an international team of scientists led by aquatic ecologists from the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics published a review about the world wide expansion, causes and risks of cyanobacterial ...
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Solar Fuels could become competitive in the 2030s
5 July 2018
The industrial synthesis of renewable hydrogen, syngas, methanol and diesel could become competitive with respect to their fossil counterparts within the next two decades. This follows from a techno-economic analysis ...
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Einstein’s theory still passes the test: weak and strong gravity objects fall the same way
4 July 2018
Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, predicts that all objects fall in the same way, regardless of their mass or composition. But does this principle also hold for objects with extreme gravity? An ...
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