Due to the bad news that usually dominates the front page of NU.nl, the good news sometimes disappears. That is why we make an overview of the positive and cheerful news.
Paralyzed Dutch can move and talk through sleeping pill
A Dutch man who has been unable to move and speak because of brain damage for eight years, can do so temporarily after taking the sleeping drug Zolpidem. Brain scans show that the sleeping pill removes an obstacle to these actions, scientists at Radboudumc and Amsterdam UMC report.
The problem, however, is that the man gets used to the sleeping aid, so that the effect becomes shorter and shorter. Yet he still receives it regularly and the discovery is a promising starting point for further research.
Astronomers find galaxies in ‘spider web of gas’ around black hole
Astronomers have discovered a number of galaxies that orbit close to a black hole. The galaxies are trapped in a “spider web of gas,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reports. The black hole in the spider web has the mass of a billion suns, according to ESO.
The entire “spider web” is more than 300 times the size of our entire Milky Way Galaxy and was formed about a billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest network of such large celestial bodies ever found.
Light show celebrates new LED system at Acropolis
The monuments on the Acropolis of Athens have been given new lights. The details of the buildings and the surroundings must become more visible through the new LED lighting.
Last smoke pole to Railway Museum, stations are now smoke-free
The last smoke pole that stood at a Dutch station was donated by the Dutch Railways (NS) and ProRail to the Railway Museum in Utrecht, ProRail reports to NU.nl on Thursday. This means that stations and platforms are completely smoke-free from Thursday.
“It has taken quite some effort, because it means quite a lot to people who smoke, but we all feel that now is the time. The cigarette no longer belongs at the stations”, says Ans Rietstra, member of the board of ProRail.
In addition to the pole that was offered to the Railway Museum, more than three hundred smoking poles were removed from about a hundred stations in September.
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