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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:11 PM

🚗 Repairing a scratch on your car with a hairdryer?

Ranjita Bose @rug.nl is working on self-healing coatings for easy repair, and ungluable glues for a circular economy. She develops tailor made polymers for polymer products like glue or coatings.

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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:51 PM

🌟Making stardust in the lab

How are the heaviest elements formed? Nuclear chemist Julia Even @rug.nl wants to collect the missing data to better understand the extreme processes that are required to form them.

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Julia Even in front of the particle accelerator AGOR.

@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:50 AM

🤖Self-driving chemistry for cleaner oceans, green reactions and modern medicines

In the lab of chemistry prof Nathalie Katsonis @rug.nl 5 robots are employed to study surfactants. It's the first step towards the use of AI in the labs.

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Robotic platforms perform chemical experiments and analyze the results

@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 2:10 PM

🦠 Extreme microorganisms and their viruses in the lab

Prof Tessa Quax @rug.nl studies viruses that infect ancient microorganisms that live in extreme environments to learn about the mechanisms of a virus infection and their evolutionary history.

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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:05 PM

✨ Searching for the first generation of stars

Else Starkenburg, astronomer @rug.nl @kapteynastro.bsky.social is searching for early-generation stars in nearby galaxies with the international programmes WEAVE and 4MOST to see what they are made of

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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 11:01 AM

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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 1:35 PM

🤖 Rockets, robots, and regulations

What good can #AI bring us?

In the #ELSAlab @rug.nl Prof. Ming Cao researches the inner workings of fish, humans, and computers to figure out how to control complex systems.🐟

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@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 1:21 PM

👗How to spot a nice wool coat in a heap of discarded textiles? Mauricio Muñoz-Arias & colleagues @rug.nl are working on automating the process with textile collector Sympany Curious? Read more👇 🔗https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/how-chemistry-can-make-robots-move-and-feel 🧪#SciComm

@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social Sep 4, 2026, 2:17 PM

🤖 How chemistry can make robots move and feel

Inspired by nature and using smart materials, organic chemist Michael Lerch @rug.nl wants to create robots that move more smoothly, like the arms of an octopus for example.

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