Recharge overview
Repeat it until you get it
As grown-ups, we easily tend to get bored when falling into a form of routine. Children, on the contrary, are very much into repetitions. This developmental difference is at the core of the way we process and interpret the world with experience.
ChatGPT: A chatbot on another level
A conversation with ChatGPT is often very similar to a conversation with a human… but one with an insane amount of knowledge. Convenient, right?
Fidgeting about and around, is it good for you?
Fidgeting might be beneficial for your concentration and maintaining weight.
From cholera to cancer: the health gap already existed in the 19th century
Apparently, the ‘health gap’ is not just something of our time. In the nineteenth century, people from lower social groups also died younger and from different causes than more affluent people. That is the conclusion of historian Owen Lammertink in his PhD thesis, which he defends at Radboud University on 12 May
Free SpeakApp!-Kids helps children overcome fear of public speaking
For many primary school children, it is a cause for enormous stress and sleepless nights time and again: class presentations. A new, free app helps children with fear of public speaking to prevent and overcome this fear. The SpeakAPP!-Kids app, developed by Radboud University researchers, allows them to practise as much as they want in a virtual reality environment.
One hundred years of significant impact on the city of Nijmegen
You can hardly conceive of Nijmegen without Radboud University. But the educational institution could put more effort into serving the entire city, as is evident from a tour of the university and city concerning mutual significance and impact. “Without the University, Nijmegen would have been a provincial trading town.”
One hundred years of significant impact on scientific education
The call for the emancipation of the Catholic population may have died down, but the University’s original values still permeate the organisation. Also in science, as Radboud researchers conclude. “Our roots won’t be denied, nor do they have to.”
One hundred years of significant impact on equal educational opportunities
Minister Dennis Wiersma is fully committed to combating unequal opportunities in education. Radboud University, founded as an emancipation university to provide better opportunities for young Catholics, should heed the appeal. By now, the University has garnered a wealth of knowledge on inequality to contribute to Wiersma’s ambitions. “Some people run into more obstacles than others.”
New climate index shows you the most vulnerable regions
Climate change affects every country, but some regions will be hit harder than others. This involves not only emissions and precipitation, but also various socio-economic factors. Radboud University’s Global Data Lab’s climate monitor maps for the first time which countries are most vulnerable.
Family has role in euthanasia wish of people with dementia
Carer, advocate or supporter: family members can assume different roles in a euthanasia wish of patients with dementia. It is important that patients, family members and other relatives and professional caregivers are aware of this. Researchers from Radboud university medical center and others write this in a review article in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
Nitrogen also affects soil invertebrates and insects
Higher levels of nitrogen in the environment (coming from fertilisers and livestock, for example) not only affect plants but also soil invertebrates and insects. The diversity of roundworms declines in areas with high input of nitrogen, and numbers of some arthropods drop. However, other species of arthropods benefit from the extra nitrogen. What is more, climate change may amplify the negative effects of nitrogen. This is the conclusion reached by a group of researchers from Radboud University, including Juan Gallego-Zamorano and Aafke Schipper, who performed a meta-analysis of 126 studies worldwide.
How Spotify affects our listening behaviour
It seems harmless, just listening to a playlist from Spotify, but there are many snags - according to cultural scientist Niels Niessen, one of the scientists on stage at Radboud Sounds, the lustrum festival at the intersection of science and music.
Children explore: how do you motivate others to take more exercise?
During the Radboud Kids Science Festival, pupils from various primary schools in Nijmegen will visit the urban island of Veur-Lent. Researchers from Radboud University will treat the pupils to a glimpse inside their world of Island-related research through a series of fun and educational activities.
Can funding harm rather than support scientific research?
In a few theoretical papers, Martin Dresler from Radboudumc and Donders Institute (Radboud University) together with colleagues from the German Young Academy and the European FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence have studied hidden costs and pitfalls of the research funding landscape. Time for a change?
Using social media to map 'air conditioning spread' (and thus heat)
With temperatures rising worldwide, more and more people globally consider air-conditioning an essential element of living. However, air-conditioning units are also rather power-hungry and are likely to increase energy consumption in areas where they are used often. To limit the impact of air-conditioners on our energy grids and our climate, we need data to better understand where they're sold globally. That's quite a struggle in regions where that data is not available. However, through social media advertising data, we get a first glimpse of what drives and motivates people to buy air-conditioners worldwide, new research led by Sibel Eker from Radboud University shows. The research is published in One Earth today.
Mind-controlling fungi: reality or science fiction?
The series “The Last of Us” (based on the video game) brought a scary and post-apocalyptic scenario to our screens: that of a fungal pandemic in which infected people turn into zombies with the sole goal of spreading the fungus to the uninfected. It makes for a very compelling horror story, but is any of it rooted in reality or is it all just imagination? The answer lies somewhere in between.
You won’t score better from just a weekly tutoring session
The image of the rich kid’s expensive tutoring contributing to inequal opportunities isn’t correct. And it distracts from issues that actually do increase the inequality of opportunities, according to Kim Fairley, whose research at Radboud University includes Dutch shadow education in Dutch primary schools.
University puts its brain research in the spotlight
On 25 April, the university will be shining the spotlight on its brain research with the Healthy Brain symposium ‘The Future of the Mind’.
'Let international students apply for their own work permit'
Students from outside the European Union studying in the Netherlands have great difficulty finding a regular job. The main problem is that they cannot apply for a work permit themselves. Three master students from Radboud University analyzed what international students encounter as a result and made recommendations on how to do something about it.
The human tendency to help exists in all cultures
People from different cultures are more alike than we first thought. All over the world, people tend to respond to requests for help and help others. This is the conclusion of a new linguistic study that appeared in Nature Scientific Reports, and in which several Radboud University researchers collaborated.