Master for Life Magazine

On this page you can read the articles of your fellow students whom participated in the elective course Communicating Life Sciences; winner of the Course of the Year Award 2026 🏆. During this course, students write and edit popular science articles on subjects related to the GSLS. 

All recently published Master for Life Magazine articles

    • The songs that shaped us: why teenage music never leaves us

      A song from your youth can transport you back in an instant. New research shows that music from our teenage years forms our most powerful memories, affects men and women differently, and may even help unlock new ways to support Alzheimer’s treatment.

    • Looking at your younger self can enhance childhood memories

      How much do you remember from your childhood? Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge may have found a way to bring back details from the past. In their recently published article, they explained that just looking at your face as your younger self can enhance your memories from the past.

    • Aanwaaiers: Catching Seeds in Schoolyards

      The first edition of Aanwaaiers, a new citizen science project led by Utrecht University researcher Monique de Jager, shows how a simple experiment with plant pots and potting soil can teach children about nature while contributing to scientific research on seed dispersal.

    • From barking to talking: Can dogs talk to humans?

      Over the past few years, soundboards for pets, with buttons that each produce a unique word, have become more and more popular. These are mostly used by dog owners, through which the owner can communicate with their pet. A collaborative study by several Universities in America studies if dogs can really associate human words to different outcomes. They showed that dogs are in fact able to rightly associate words of the human language to their meaning.

    • Covid-19 vaccination: a cure for cancer?

      The treatment of patients with cancer could become significantly more successful when it includes vaccination against covid-19, a groundbreaking new study says.

    • A bag for the future; will fungi be the new leather?

      In Utrecht you’ll come across leather bags anytime. However, it is not the most sustainable option when it comes to materials. Lately, fungal mycelium has come into sight as a nice, bio-based alternative. This is exactly what PhD student Jeroen van den Brandhof is working on: how to grow leather from a fungus.
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