🐭Did we meet? Just like humans, sleepy mice forget their social encounters after a bad night.

Neuroscientist Robbert Havekes & UG team found that the asthma drug roflumilast brings back these social memories after sleep deprivation.😴

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/slaperige-muis-vergeet-ontmoetingen-een-astmamedicijn-brengt-herinneringen-terug

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🔍What are pheromones chemically made of?

Researchers from the universities of Groningen, Wageningen & Regensburg have deciphered the tiny pheromones of Trichogramma turkestanica, with 0.4 mm one of the smallest insects we know.🔬

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/20260602-tinypheromonesdeciphered

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🫁‘Materials that implants are made of often cause inflammation or tissue damage.’

Prof. of Polymer Science Marleen Kamperman & research team at the UG & UMCG are developing softer materials for stents and valves, as well as less invasive means to insert them using magnets.🧲

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/the-hard-challenge-making-implants-soft-and-smart

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📱Should information on social media always flow freely?

Simulations by Prof. of Artificial Intelligence Davide Grossi and UG team show that an unrestricted flow of information can amplify incorrect ideas amongst like-minded people.💡❌

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/how-a-free-flow-of-information-can-amplify-incorrect-ideas

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🔢‘The beauty is that our field doesn’t need big experiments.'

In the new project FARMLAB, Prof. Bayu Jayawardhana and his UG team work out the mathematical formulas that let agricultural robots work together to monitor crops.🌾

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/we-don-t-need-experiments

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‘They think I'm an elevator mechanic.'🧰

Thanks to Profs. Jan C. Willems & Ruth Curtain, the UG is among the world leaders in the field of Systems and Control.

Learn about the mathematical tricks behind a range of applications, from high-tech production processes to the movements of a knee prosthesis.🦿

Read more👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/new-mathematics-for-an-ever-more-complex-world

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‘We might use this to design efficient cell factories.'🏭

New research by Prof. Matthias Heinemann & team shows that hydrophobic proteins cluster together for faster transport in the cell, like an assembly line in a factory. 📦📦📦

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/proteins-cluster-in-cells-for-faster-performance

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🫀Why is our heart to the left and the liver to the right?

Researchers from UG/TUe built a world-first artificial embryonic node that mimics the flow pattern that decides where organs grow during embryonic development.🤰

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/health-and-life/why-is-our-heart-to-the-left-and-the-liver-to-the-right

Published in Science Advances

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🎧 In Science podcast - How can we recycle rubber tires?

In the new episode, Prof. Francesco Picchioni shares insights from his startup that uses new technologies to recycle tire rubber into new products such as flip-flops.🚗♻️🩴

Listen now via Spotify/Apple Podcast/RSS feed 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/latest-news/news/podcasts/

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💊 What makes a good RNA-targeting drug?

Molecular biologist at the UG Danny Incarnato shows that small molecules that bind to RNA only rarely affect its function, while molecules that change RNA structure have a bigger effect.

His team's findings were published in Nature Communications.

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/study-shows-how-to-identify-drugs-altering-rna-structure-and-function

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