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  • Bachelor's Week: 9-13 March

    Thinking of studying in the Netherlands? Get to know our Bachelor's programmes, meet students and lecturers, join the online information sessions, and experience the campus for yourself.
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  • Some corals showing resilience to climate stress

    Coral reefs are declining rapidly, but it turns out corals living in coastal bays with strongly fluctuating temperatures and environmental conditions are better able to withstand heat and other stressors than their counterparts on more stable reefs.
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  • Stress

    Stress: everyone experiences it from time to time, but we all know too much stress is harmful and can lead to burnout. What does science say about the causes of stress? And what can we do about it – individually and as a society?
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  • Is my phone listening to me?

    We’ve almost all experienced it: you’re talking with someone in the offline world and a short while later you start seeing online ads relating to the topic of that conversation. More and more often, smartphones, apps and smart devices leave us feeling monitored.
    What is really happening?

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