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How do you get as muscular as Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Every superhero movie these days is peppered with men who barely get their muscles into their tight suits. Nothing new, because years before Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone already caused a muscular hype. Not everyone is born with …
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Can you die from too much sugar?
How many cream cakes, chocolate bars, kilos of chips (because they also contain sugar) can you eat until you literally drop? Prof. dr. Dr Chantal Mathieu is visited every day at the University Hospital of Leuven who suffer from the consequences of …
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Will no one need chemo soon?
Chemo, with a little luck, can cure cancer. But everyone knows that the side effects are not minor. For several years now, many cancer researchers have focused on immunotherapy. Successfully! Far fewer side effects and for some patients also very …
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Do you get fat from the pill?
"No hormones in my body! And certainly not if it makes me fat! Awoerd the pill! Long live... er... something else!" The pill has gotten a bit of a bad name in recent years. Unjustly, according to professor Hendrik Cammu. But it can make you fat. …
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What do stones and camels have to do with the IUD?
Did you know that you should take a sports bag with you to the pharmacist when you buy an IUD? Because it won't fit in an ordinary bag! That's dire news for anyone considering an IUD. But gynecology professor Hendrik Cammu reassures all women for …
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Do you buy better prepackaged food?
The question seems a bit of a contractio in terms. It is better for the environment to buy unpackaged food anyway, right? Just think of the entire plastic soup in the oceans. But what if all that packaging prevents food waste? As an expert in …
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Can Turbo Bacteria Beat Pesticides?
Every water molecule in urine ends up in a tap again. And before you wrinkle your nose… there's really nothing wrong with that. In nature, water is purified with bacteria and in water treatment plants we mimic nature in the same way. But …
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Why are you allowed to drink snake venom?
In some languages, a distinction is made between two types of poison: in English people speak of 'venom' when poison enters the body through a wound, 'poison' refers to poison that is absorbed through the digestive system. Snake venom is venom and …
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Why is there more MS in Belgium than in Costa Rica?
In Flanders, MS occurs in approximately 100 out of 100,000 people. MS is 20 times less common in Costa Rica, but 5 in 100,000 people get it. That seems a bit strange at first sight… aren't we in Western countries more resistant to nasty …
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What can you find in a drop of blood?
You've probably heard about the finger prick that diabetics have to do to monitor their sugar levels. But we can gain much more knowledge from a drop of blood. You may already know that detecting congenital abnormalities in a newborn baby. But …
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DNA fingerprint
During this workshop the students learn how to make a fingerprint.
NA is 99.5% identical in everyone. However, there are small differences hidden here and there, which make the DNA of every person unique.
This is gratefully used in forensic …
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remote sensing
English video explaining what remote sensing is.
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