A trial in Drenthe with mobile fences to deter wolves has been successful, the province reported on Monday. More than ten thousand animals were protected between October and May by the placement of 114 fences at eleven livestock farms. During the trial, one wolf attack was recorded, but according to the province, this was because […]
A Camping for Residents with Dementia Helps Them Get Through the Summer For many elderly people with dementia, a vacation is no longer an option. Employees at the Brinkhoef care center came up with a solution, writes RTV Utrecht. This week, employees set up a ‘camping at home’ in French style, complete with tents, badminton
Dutch firefighters are helping Spanish colleagues this summer to combat wildfires. They are also learning techniques that they can use at home due to climate change. With 695 Dutch wildfire reports, 2025 is already another busy year. Twenty firefighters will travel to Galicia, in northern Spain, on Thursday. There, they will relieve the twenty colleagues
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After being homeless for three years, 100-year-old Ayyada Boukili has found a home in Amsterdam. With the help of the Amsterdam-based Assadaaka Community foundation, Boukili was finally able to sign a lease in July. The very elderly woman has lived in the Netherlands for about sixty years. Her three children have passed away, and her
In the United Kingdom, eight healthy children have been born through a special treatment that uses the DNA of three people each time. The new IVF technique makes the children much less likely to develop life-threatening diseases. The mothers of the eight children had mutations in parts of their cells. As a result, there was
The little grey kiwi has been sighted on the mainland of New Zealand for the first time in nearly fifty years. The rare bird species was last seen in the wild in 1978 and was thought to be lost. The bird is locally known as the kiwi pukupuku, which means the swollen kiwi. Despite the
Treatment with VR proven effective against psychosis A study from the University Medical Center Groningen shows that people with psychosis benefit from therapy with Virtual Reality (VR). During therapy sessions, people with paranoid ideas can practice how to deal with everyday situations. For example, standing in line at the supermarket. That can make people with
Magnets help doctors in Ukraine with heart surgery Surgeons in Ukraine use small magnets for heart operations. After the Russian invasion in 2022, an urgent question came to the country for a way to remove more and more grenade shards from the heart. The magnet looks like a pen whose end is magnetic. The pen
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