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Do brooks need turns?
A winding stream is ambitious: if you want to kayak, you are stuck in a bend every 10 meters, boats have to steer and you cannot build your house neatly on the banks. And yet the Hasselt biologist Alain De Vocht argues for more curves in streams! …
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Why aren't fungi so bad yet?
A leftover food in the kitchen has turned into a hairy monster or you have itchy toes after your last swim. Seeing fungi rarely makes you happy. Someone who is completely happy to hear the word fungus is Jan Colpaert from UHasselt. Fungi, he …
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Why do people with dementia only remember their childhood?
Why do people with dementia often remember details from their childhood, but not that you came to visit yesterday? Or is that a myth? Neurologist Sebastiaan Engelborghs (UAntwerpen & VUB) is investigating whether we cannot detect dementia …
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Can we store CO₂ in the ocean?
We emit too much CO₂, we don't have to tell you that anymore. Wouldn't it be great if we could just fish that CO₂ out of the air? Well, that's what they're working on at the VUB. Through plankton! It can be said that plankton …
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Why are fish more depressed than before?
Fish depressed? They don't have feelings, do they? Anyway! And yes, just like people, they can feel bad or lonely. Now even more so than in the past ... Biologist Gudrun De Boeck (UAntwerpen) dives into Belgian streams and tropical coral …
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Do you become more creative if you train your right hemisphere?
The left brain is more developed in rational people. On the other hand, if you use your right hemisphere more, you are more creative, sensitive and intuitive. That is at least a statement that you often hear. But is that correct too? …
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Are people descended from the monkeys?
"No, people don't descend from monkeys!" That is the amazing answer from biologist Patrick Reygel. Is Professor Reygel a creationist, completely crazy or does he have the perfect scientific explanation for this? He opens the skull …
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Why can't you sit on a coral?
Do you like it when someone stands on your toe? No? Corals either! So do not sit on it, because corals are not stones or plants, as the misunderstanding wants. They are animals! Marine biologist Marc Kochzius (VUB) comes to talk about the beauty, …
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What happens to your body when you give it to science?
Leen Popleu teaches anatomy at the University of Hasselt. And how can you better explain where the "aorta ascendens" and "ulcer nerve" are located than by showing it on a real body? And where do those real bodies come from? …
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Can we build top athletes in a lab?
Turning an ordinary car into a racing car is simple: a powerful engine, an aerodynamic shape, a spolier front and rear and you are ready for top sport. It would be useful if we could do the same with the human body. Some extra leg muscles to run …
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Is a saxophonist more likely to have lung fibrosis?
Have you ever heard of lung fibrosis? A nasty disease that you are best at. And yet even a lot of doctors sometimes overlook this disease. That is why professor Wim Wuyts, pulmonologist at KU Leuven, has a mission: to make lung fibrosis better …
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Why do plants grow better in the city?
Have you ever paid close attention to the plants that grow in the city? You may have noticed that you don't know some species! After all, it is possible that when you travel to faraway places, tiny seeds will stick to your clothes, which will …
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