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18 January 2024
‘We need greater water awareness’
- The increased frequency of floods and droughts caused by climate change is eventually going to make the current approach to water management... -
18 January 2024
The opportunities of AI in food and ecosystems
- Wageningen research groups are working with artificial intelligence (AI) more and more. What opportunities and dilemmas does that present for our... -
17 January 2024
Melting glaciers - how bad is that?
- The glaciers in the Himalayas will mostly have melted by the end of the present century. Hester Biemans has an ERC Consolidator grant to investigate... -
17 January 2024
New method to monitor movement in cells
- Wageningen researchers and their international collaboration partners have developed novel software that accurately maps the movements of multiple... -
16 January 2024
One-million NWO subsidy for research into early detection of dementia and monitoring of aging
- Wageningen University & Research has received a grant of over one million euros from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).... -
16 January 2024
Chameleon AI programme classifies objects in satellite images faster
- A programme can train neural networks, using just a handful of images, to rapidly characterise in satellite and drone data new objects like ocean... -
15 January 2024
New 4TU Centre focuses on the history of technology
- From January 2024, the four technical universities are pooling their knowledge and expertise in the field of the history of technology in the 4TU... -
09 January 2024
Agriculture is very thirsty
- Agriculture is the biggest consumer of fresh water in the world. And demand is set to rise, while availability falls. ‘Changes to the food... -
09 January 2024
Plant-parasitic nematodes on the rise: WUR launches major research project
- Climate change and genetic selection have brought root-knot nematodes further north in Europe and made cyst nematodes more difficult to control. These... -
09 January 2024
Middelhoven Fund has supported students’ internships for 28 years
- The Middelhoven Fund was initiated by Wout Middelhoven, associate professor at the Laboratory for Microbiology. Since its founding twenty-eight years...