Cells of electricity-generating cable bacteria sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the organism, a new NESSC-publication shows. The researchers discovered that electricity-generating cable bacteria do not divide labour
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Every year, the mighty Mississippi river and its distributaries carry vast amounts of sediments and nutrients into the northern Gulf of Mexico, impacting the chemistry and biology in the
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NESSC-researcher Caroline Slomp (Utrecht University) has been granted the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow 2020 by the Geochemical Society (GS) and The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG). [caption id="attachment_7092" align="alignright"
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On Sunday December 15th, the annual NESSC Christmas lecture takes place. In this year’s lecture NESSC-researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke, glaciologist at IMAU, Utrecht, will talk about his research on
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NESSC-researchers Mike Jetten and Caroline Slomp receive a prestigious ERC Synergy grant of €7.6 million. With the EU research grant they will investigate how micro-organism remove harmful methane and
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