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Genomic sequencing, rare in low-income countries, identifies and tracks variants of the virus that cause COVID-19.

Cities all over the world increasingly position bicycling as a key ingredient to achieve sustainable mobility goals, yet grapple with finding the right way how.

'Conversations on quantum gravity' is physicist Jay Armas' new book on the ongoing search for a theory of everything.

To meet the Paris Agreement to keep global warming below 2 °C, society has to increase investments in low-carbon power generation, especially for solar and wind technologies.

Anna-Rose Shack, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Heleen de Vries have received funding for their doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities.

With sunny weather and vacations on the horizon, we are once again being given plenty of warnings about the effects of the sun on our skin.

The University of Amsterdam has been given the go-ahead for the new Bachelor's programme in Computational Social Science.

National and international climate policies are surrounded by huge uncertainties and numerous obstacles.

Counting repetitive phenomena by the use of sight and sound 28 June 2021 Recently, an article from researchers from the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam has been published at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; the leading peer-reviewed publication venue in the field of artificial intelligence.

Sophie Blinker, a double Master's student in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine, has conducted research into a specific protein in bacterial spores to contribute to food safety.

An international team of astronomers, including Alex de Koter (University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven), has solved the mystery surrounding the sudden dimming of the star Betelgeuse.

The Amsterdam region has many initiatives to make the future waste-free and circular, from students with creative ideas to entrepreneurs with innovative plans.

In Brussels, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) lobby hard on issues that are already on the political agenda, while companies lobby on issues they would like to see added to the agenda.

Waking up remains a strange sensation. Just one moment ago the world didn't exist for you and then, in a split second, it was there with all the smells, sounds, movements and visual sensations.