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Vanaf nu is de presentatie Makers van de RUG te zien in het Groninger Universiteitsmuseum als onderdeel van de tentoonstelling Masterminds.

Welke rol speelt twijfel in de wetenschap? Deze vraag stond afgelopen zaterdagavond centraal tijdens het Twijfelachtig Spektakel in de circustent op Noorderzon.

Het tijdschrift National Geographic heeft het planetenpad in het Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer verkozen tot een van de tien mooiste wandelroutes van Nederland.

Martijn Meijer, eerst student en later promovendus bij de onderzoeksgroep Productietechnologie van FSE, ontdekte dat problemen soms onverwachte kansen bieden voor innovatie. 

Seagrasses have all but disappeared throughout the world, but these unique saltwater plants play a vital role in an ecosystem. On the occasion of the World Seagrass Conference this week (17-21 June) in Naples, Italy, the BBC premieres a mini documentary on the seagrass restoration work done byUG scientist Laura Govers.

Professor of Energy Conversion Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani is working on systems that use hydrogen to produce electricity – for large factories, for instance. But even your car or your toilet could be capable of producing electricity from hydrogen.

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.

A sustainable way to produce hydrogen has been around for a century, but it is still much cheaper to make hydrogen from natural gas. Researchers from the UG are working on more efficient, affordable, and scalable production of green hydrogen.

Green hydrogen holds many promises. But grey hydrogen from natural gas is still much cheaper, storage of hydrogen is not trivial and as an indirect greenhouse gas is not as clean as it might look.

In Noordpolderzijl is een nachttuin geopend, waarin een kunstwerk staat dat de schoonheid van het open land verbindt met de sterrenhemel.

Er is een nieuwe steen geplaatst op het graf van Nobelprijswinnaar Frits Zernike en zijn zus Elisabeth.

In his laboratory, physicist Steven Hoekstra is building an experimental set-up made of two parts: one that produces barium fluoride molecules, and a second part that traps the molecules and brings them to an almost complete standstill so they can be investigated

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.

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.

Every two weeks, UG Makers puts the spotlight on a researcher who has created something tangible, ranging from homemade measuring equipment for academic research to small or larger products that can change our daily lives. That is how UG researchers contribute to the solutions for big scientific and societal challenges.

The Origins Centre will tackle questions submitted to the National Science Agenda about the origin of life on Earth and in the Universe. A number of scientists from the University of Groningen have a leading role in this Centre. Part 1 of a series: the background to the Origins Centre.

Ben Feringa is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry