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Social distancing
It already feels like a distant memory: the time when RIVM director Jaap van Dissel was trying to keep everyone at a metre and a half apart. Yet social...
Hooked on poison
It is easily done in humans, but getting fruit flies addicted to cocaine is another matter. Fortunately, researchers from Salt Lake City1 – the 'city of saints' – have...
Risk of breakage
Essential information for an Egg Drop Challenge – and for all breeding birds taking part in Beleef de Lente! An international group of physicists...
Inbreeding threatens captive corpse flowers
Botanic gardens take great pride in their giant corpse flowers (Amorphophallus titanum), which when they bloom emit a penetrating stench of rotting flesh and...
Australia’s lost giants: the dinosaurs of Down Under
Dinosaurs have long been a sore point in Australia: some fossils and sizeable footprints have been found, but nothing from large predators such as...