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  • Animals as fellow citizens

    How can we best live together in an increasingly crowded world?
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  • Master's student UvA discovers exceptional exoplanet

    Master's student Kaya Han Taş has discovered a special exoplanet. The planet is so close to its star that it appears to be stretched into an almond shape.
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  • How prey outsmart stronger, faster predators

    Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. How do prey get away?
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  • Why smiling doesn't make an influencer more successful

    Many people think influencers always need to be positive to be successful, but that’s not true. What matters most is whether their emotion expression is perceived to appropriate, authentic, and similar to the audience’s own feelings.
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