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“During this outbreak, everything depends on the capacity of hospitals to provide people with artificial respiration.”

Fake news is flourishing these days, but why? We asked Ivar Vermeulen, associate professor in Communication Science and fake news researcher.

The far-reaching government measures for the coronavirus outbreak are making personal contact very difficult for elderly. How can we contribute?

It is highly likely that our bodies contain microplastics, but are they also inside the cells of unborn children?

VU Professor of Artificial Intelligence Zhisheng Huang uses his suicide scanner to monitor the Chinese Internet.

Theo van Tilburg, sociologist at the VU Amsterdam, has studied loneliness among elderly Dutch people.

Up until recently, archaeological finds made by hobbyist archaeologists would mostly lay around collecting dust in people’s attics.

Testing blood several times a day is something diabetics have to deal with on a daily basis. If it’s up to Elizabeth von Hauff this will change.