🎧 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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🧊 Since 2020, the total ice mass in #Antarctica has stopped decreasing. How?

Researchers from the UG & KNMI found that a sharp increase in snowfall is mainly due to ‘atmospheric rivers’ transporting extra moist air to the ice sheet.🌨️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/2026/more-ice-in-antarctica-due-to-increased-snowfall

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🦭Why do seals "whisk" their whiskers?

New research by PhD student Chinmay Gupta, Prof. Ajay Kottapalli and team @rug.nl shows that active whisking improves sensing, helping seals accurately follow underwater trails.🌊

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/why-do-seals-whisk-their-whiskers

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🪐'With our simulation model PROTEUS, we can determine the formation history of many more planets with different compositions and climatic histories.'

Ass. Prof. Tim Lichtenberg & team at the UG discovered a new type of molten sulphur world.🔥

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-molten-sulphur-world

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🐦What can we learn about our own health from the #SeychellesWarbler?

Dr Chuen Zhang Lee & his team at the UG/UEA have uncovered a hidden link between gut health and the immune system, all thanks to this small songbird.🎵

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/2026/island-birds-reveal-surprising-link-between-immunity-and-gut-bacteria

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☢️‘Without the ozone layer, the radiation that reaches us is comparable to the radiation from an atomic bomb.’

Reynier Peletier, astronomer at the UG, is worried about #SpaceX & Musk's plans to launch another million satellites in space.🛰️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/data-centres-in-space-threaten-astronomy-and-ozone-layer

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⚛️ How does the biggest #particleaccelerator help to understand the smallest building blocks of #matter?

Ass. Profs. Kristof De Bruyn & Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort use the #LargeHadronCollider @CERN to collide #protons with the aim to discover unexplained phenomena. 💥

Read about the long search for new #physics in our new article 👇
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/the-long-search-for-new-physics

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🌏 Why are only a few #planets suitable for life? And why is Earth one of them?

Dr. Rob Spaargaren, together with his international team of astronomers, answers these questions in a new paper.

It may have consequences for the search for life elsewhere.🔎

Curious? Read more 👇️
🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/matter-and-space/why-only-a-small-number-of-planets-are-suitable-for-life

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🧊 What are #metamaterials, and why does their size matter?

Shyam Veluvali and research team at the UG & UMCG discovered new insights that lead to better implants, robot hands, and bumpers.

Curious? Read more👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2026/new-insights-in-metamaterials-lead-to-better-implants-robot-hands-and-bumpers

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