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News 2018
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Your brain can't tell the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer
- If you think you're drinking alcoholic beer, you'll get the same reward from your brain as you would drinking non-alcoholic beer. These are the... -
Dilemma about Earth’s future wins ‘Wageningen Universiteit Vijfje’
- Shall we try to save planet Earth or take our chances and escape to Mars? You could debate this dilemma, but you could also flip a coin for it. The... -
New EU agricultural policy brings new risks
- Under the new European agricultural policy, all Member States will have to draft their own plans to achieve the EU objectives. According to experts,... -
WUR joins Dutch trade mission to Colombia
- This week, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is participating in the Dutch trade mission to Colombia. This mission is led by Prime Minister... -
Sex in a world of fear: rodents produce more offspring when frightened
- Rodent mothers produce more offspring after smelling odors produced by frightened males. This is reported by a team of biologists from Finland and the... -
Study of vertical temperature profile in tomato greenhouse
- The application of Next Generation Growing (NGG, in Dutch "Het Nieuwe Telen") in Dutch greenhouses has resulted in energy savings,... -
A diet with ice: how does the food web underneath the ice of the polar oceans work?
- Life in the polar oceans is under pressure due to global warming. Marine Biologist Fokje Schaafsma went to the Arctic and Antarctic regions to study... -
Nils Foss Excellence Prize for Robert David Hall for plant biochemical fingerprint research
- Today, the Wageningen University & Research Professor Robert David Hall received the Nils Foss Excellence Prize for his pioneering research in... -
Wageningen again and again rated best university of the Netherlands
- Wageningen University & Research has been chosen as the “Best University” for the 14th consecutive time. Of the 19 Wageningen... -
Warming spoiling winter wonderland in Europe
- Once upon a time, when we were young, Europe was covered in a thick blanket of snow in winter. But climate change is threatening to spoil our...