Category: science

The Senior Citizens’ Council of Stichtse Vecht will hold an interactive meeting on aging and your health in the afternoon of Thursday, December 14, 2023. To inform and motivate you. How do you want to grow up? It’s about your health, your thoughts and desires, engagement and belonging, and finding…

About the episode It all starts with a cell that divides and continues to divide until a complex organism is created. But at a certain point growth stops. For us humans, this happens during puberty. But why this actually happens is still not entirely clear. It is also true that…

My ad News On average, a woman spends a quarter of her life in menopause. This normal period, which every woman goes through between the ages of 40 and…

A new campaign aims to persuade Brussels doctors to report infectious diseases to the Brussels government. “There is already more awareness, but we have a feeling that we are still missing a lot of reports.” In order to better detect infectious diseases and eliminate them in the bud, the Gulf…

Plants are having a hard time on an ever-warming planet. Not only do high temperatures make survival more difficult, but dehydration also causes problems. The question that has been preoccupying climate scientists for some time is: Which plants are more resistant to dry soil or dry air? The question is…

When I use the word “virus,” you may immediately think of COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 virus caused the largest pandemic in 100 years, but did you know there are nearly 10 quintillion (an impressive number of at least 30 zeros!) other viruses? Fortunately, most viruses do not infect humans, but bacteria…

look. Recent satellite images show that the mountain is rapidly drifting across the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula The ice mass could crush animals living on the island and on the sea floor, and their access to food could be cut off. According to scientists, the iceberg could also…

fragment brake There are no fixed rules at KU Leuven regarding taking a break.Archive photo When a professor denied her a much-needed study break, journalism student Noelle was forced to think. “Break breaks are often shortened, skipped, or taken too late. However, they are essential to the physical and mental…

Life did not suddenly come together like a tornado in a scrap heap. It also does not appear when you try all possible options before choosing the best one. All life arose on this rock floating in space beneath our feet through the slow, meandering trial-and-error method (which might perhaps…

Activate dark mode Turn off dark mode “Science is everywhere. It is not hidden in a dusty laboratory or buried somewhere under a dense pile of books, no, on the contrary,” says Minister Jo Bruns (CD&V), the Flemish Minister of Science and Innovation. “Our colleges, research institutions, museums, STEM academies…