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Resource City of Urban Mine: Resources in your own city
Worldwide, we face the great challenge of meeting the ever-growing demand for
to track raw materials. You usually find them underground and mining
we through mines. But it is becoming more and more interesting to live in our own cities
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More sustainable with plastics and plastics
Plastics. Many things that we call 'plastic' fall under the heading of 'plastics' and we could easily list a hundred applications of plastics. We are talking about plastic packaging, but it also includes PVC garden furniture, medical devices (such …
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Carbon dioxide: How do we combat global warming?
Carbon dioxide… The air is full of it and fortunately so. Because CO₂ ensures that the heat from the sun is retained. CO₂ is, in itself, quite ok. But trop is too much. CO₂ is a greenhouse gas and excess CO₂ is …
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Geothermal heat: Possibilities as an energy source
Did you know that geothermal heat is multifunctional? If the temperature of the underground water is high enough, we can generate electricity and heat buildings: handy!
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How do you stop feeling dizzy in bed when you're drunk?
Do you remember how you used to get so terribly nauseous on the bus on a school trip? Or in the back seat of the car? Have you ever wondered if that was normal? Prof. dr. Dr Floris Wuyts does. He specializes in the human balance system and he …
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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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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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Is pencil stronger than steel?
Of course pencil is not stronger than steel! Because you can easily break a pencil and a steel rod of the same thickness absolutely not. And why this question? Because a pencil can become very strong if you have a very thin layer of it. que?? dr. …
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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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How do you make gold?
Professor Piet Van Duppen can do what the alchemists have been looking for for years: he can turn lead into gold. no kidding! And yet he is not living on a tropical island. Why not? Because he is so good at explaining to the people (all of us) how …
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Why don't we use drugs as medicine anymore?
In English, drugs are simply medicines and that is not surprising. Did you know, for example, that cocaine used to be used as a sore throat softener or as a licorice that was sucked up for toothaches? And to lose weight, amphetamines were sold ... …
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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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