Dioxins affect young soles more

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Baby fishes are more affected than adult fishes by water polluted with PCBs and dioxins. So says Edwin Foekema from the marine institute IMARES after…

Battle of the Leeuwarden universities

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A fierce battle raged at Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden on 30…

Symbiosis with bacteria and fungi similar

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Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants presumably takes place when plants and mycorrhizal…
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Rio + 20 back to square one

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Twenty years of talking about sustainable development at top international conferences has…

Skimping on sheep

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Shepherds in the Netherlands fall between two stools. They are neither seen…
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Pieter Walstra, the man who founded dairy science

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In the past milk was either full fat or semi-skimmed, but these…
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‘It’s not salad days – it’s tomato days’

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Who? Rene Klein Lankhorst, researcher at Plant Research InternationalWhat? Unravelled the secret…

Ode to the planet

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An ode to the planet at the country's greenest university - some…

Students and money: all in the mind

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Are you a trendsetter? Someone who is easy-going with money, not afraid…

European Cup: Love or hate?

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Some have had the Dutch team's every match noted in their diaries…