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Sept. 9, 2021
Food shortages, climate change, environmental degradation, a scarcity of resources. We live in a time that cries out for change ...
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July 28, 2021
A new study of ancient human faeces shows how microbial populations in the gut have changed over the past 2 ...
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June 29, 2021
Water bears. Super survivors that survive even alien conditions with ease. Now, researchers have subjected them to impacts with the ...
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May 31, 2021
ARTIS-Micropia reopens from June 5 and this month presents its largest art object to date: The Fungal Wall. Especially for ...
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May 31, 2021
Pollution by microplastics is an ever-growing, world-wide problem. Minuscule pieces of plastic pile up in the environment and food chain ...
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April 7, 2021
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March 26, 2021
Sourdough has been eaten worldwide for millennia, and tasted differently everywhere. Micropia investigated the microbial composition of sourdough from the ...
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March 9, 2021
In the ARTIS-Planetarium visitors can admire the universe without having to leave our planet earth. However, this is not enough ...
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Feb. 9, 2021
The extraordinarily large bacterium Achromatium oxaliferum can be found in all kinds of waterbodies: from seawater to fresh water, from ...
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Jan. 29, 2021
In her research, Microbiome Award winner Anouk van Mourik explores the possibilities of molecular mimicry and how this principle can ...
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Jan. 8, 2021
January 6, 2021 was an important day for the Netherlands in the fight against COVID-19. The first Dutchman to receive ...
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Dec. 21, 2020
In Micropia we have a nice collection of microbes, about 300 species. But on our planet, there is an unbelievably ...
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