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UvA researchers build ChatGPT for chemistry

UvA researchers build ChatGPT for chemistry

26 January 2024 - 12:21

For five years, UvA chemists worked on a robot that can take over the work of an organic chemist. On January 25th, those results were published in the leading journal Science. With the data generated by the robot, AI will soon be able to predict which reaction works best. “Getting it right the...

UvA professor: Lousy housing market drives teachers out of Amsterdam

UvA professor: Lousy housing market drives teachers out of Amsterdam

25 January 2024 - 18:01

Because elementary school teachers cannot find a roof over their heads in Amsterdam, they are leaving the city. As a result, the teacher shortage is getting even worse, conclude researchers from the University of Amsterdam and elsewhere. “The distressed Amsterdam housing market brings them too...

Fake news and climate change are biggest global risks, experts warn

Fake news and climate change are biggest global risks, experts warn

10 January 2024 - 15:47

Fake news is the biggest risk facing the world in the next two years, World Economic Forum risk experts estimate. Climate change is the biggest threat over the next decade. “What is potentially coming our way has never been more intense than now.”

UvA educators: “Reading comprehension must be brought back to all secondary school subjects”

UvA educators: “Reading comprehension must be brought back to all secondary school subjects”

12 December 2023 - 09:49

Reading proficiency in Dutch secondary schools has reached a low point, according to the results of the PISA study published last week. There are plenty of explanations, one of which lies with the teacher training colleges specializing in primary education, or PABOs, the UvA educators Gert Rijlaarsd...

UvA research: What do companies do when a storm surge hits the Randstad?

UvA research: What do companies do when a storm surge hits the Randstad?

6 December 2023 - 09:12

If the Randstad is flooded, will companies help rebuild the city or will they pack their bags? UvA researchers figured it out for Amsterdam and Rotterdam in what they quickly dubbed the crazy paper. “Companies’ primary responses are not about economically rational choices.”

Allard Pierson director Els van der Plas: “The look could be a bit fresher”

Allard Pierson director Els van der Plas: “The look could be a bit fresher”

5 December 2023 - 13:12

For a year and a half, Els van der Plas, former director of the National Opera & Ballet, among other organizations, has been at the helm of the Allard Pierson Museum. She took over from Wim Hupperetz, who stepped down in 2021 after 12 years as director. What direction does van der Plas want the ...

UvA PhD student sees bright spots in Amazon deforestation in local initiatives

UvA PhD student sees bright spots in Amazon deforestation in local initiatives

28 November 2023 - 17:02

Deforestation in the Amazon is heading for a tipping point, after which the forest will no longer recover and turn into savannah. Yet there are bright spots, observes Gabriela Russo Lopes, who has been visiting the Brazilian deforestation belt for eight years and will receive her doctorate from the ...

Fourteen years later, UvA scientists are now sure: Babies recognize beat in music

Fourteen years later, UvA scientists are now sure: Babies recognize beat in music

27 November 2023 - 14:30

Sense of rhythm is indeed innate, according to UvA research published today in the journal Cognition. A recent study of 27 sleeping babies clears up remaining doubts and proves that newborns do indeed recognize the beat in music. “Music therefore also has a biological basis, which must have pr...

The university in the classroom; UvA physicists take over the classroom

The university in the classroom; UvA physicists take over the classroom

21 November 2023 - 12:59

Not only in the French-Swiss CERN do they deal with particle physics. In Dutch secondary schools, too, it is daily fare. Yet academia is not able to reach everyone. That is why physicists of the Amsterdam-based Nikhef take over the physics lesson at the Petrus Canisius College in Alkmaar for a day.

Is there a way to counteract distrust in science?

Is there a way to counteract distrust in science?

15 November 2023 - 08:35

Where science touches people’s lives, such as climate, corona and nitrogen, distrust is highest. How does science communication deal with these topics? “People judge knowledge by what it means for their own situation. When that situation is threatened, people start interpreting facts dif...

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