News archive 2016
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Large-scale demonstration projects for recovering nutrients from manure and sludge
- Soon, the first ‘Groene Mineralen Centrale’ (green mineral plant) for the processing of pig manure will be realised. The plant will... -
Commonly used ethical labels limit their usefulness
- Nowadays, product labels are often used to enable consumers to choose products that are friendly to the environment and to animals, natural, healthful... -
Time constraints and the competition determine a hunter's decision to shoot
- What prompts a hunter to shoot an animal after it is spotted? Wageningen and Norwegian researchers studied more than 180,000 choice situations where... -
Pasteurised intestinal bacterium reduces effects of obesity and diabetes
- The intestinal bacterium Akkermansia proves to offer enduring benefits for the intestines of overweight mice and diabetic animals. In experiments, the... -
Wageningen University & Research and TNO start consortium on Personalised Nutrition and Health
- A society in which every individual can – and wants to – make a conscious choice to follow a nutritional program that precisely fits with... -
EGU Von Humboldt Medal Prof. Johan Bouma
- Emeritus Professor Soil Science Johan Bouma will be awarded the prestigious Von Humboldt Medal by the European Geosciences Union in Vienna this April... -
Less plastic in stomachs of fulmars
- Plastic marine litter, both industrial granules and consumer wastes decline slowly but with certainty. For some years, this tendency was already... -
Lisa Becking's story on what inspires her to be a scientist
- A beautiful video was published on the website of "Spark of Science" in which Dr. Lisa Becking shows what inspires her to do research in her... -
Workshop ‘gene editing’
- On October 14 this year, the initiative group sustainable breeding (Initiatiefgroep Duurzame Fokkerij) organised a stakeholder workshop about... -
Vegetables from Mars awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science
- Mars soil researcher Wieger Wamelink has been awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science. He was awarded the prize during the...