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37-year-old paleontologist Melanie During from Leeuwarden is taking her own show to theaters. Through her tour, which includes playing the electric guitar, she aims to make science more accessible to a broader audience.

As a child, she felt unseen, now no one can get around her. The popular paleontologist Melanie During from Leeuwarden wants to make science more accessible. She walks past the theatres, with an electric guitar. “I want to try everything.”

Mustafa Marghadi is stepping down from his role as a correspondent for NOS. On the podcast De Dag, he reflects on his reporting from Italy and Southeast Asia. The episode is available on various podcast platforms.

A bookseller sent the author back to Leeuwarden with a specific assignment. This task plays a central role in a personal story about the city.

Dutch actor and TV presenter Maarten Spanjer has passed away at the age of 73. He gained widespread fame in the 1990s through the television show Taxi, where he drove around disguised as a cab driver. Spanjer was also a columnist for the newspaper De Telegraaf.

Various groups, including students, farmers, and taxi drivers, are holding large-scale demonstrations across France today. Meanwhile, the Dutch Design Week event is kicking off in Eindhoven. Weather in the Netherlands will feature a mix of sunshine and scattered showers.

Imagination, that's what the youth theatre festival Het Avontuur in the theatre De Harmonie is all about. For four days, the children get lost in their imagination here.

For centuries, the clitoris remained an overlooked organ in medical science. Although many people know the visible 'button', the entire organ turns out to be much larger and more complex than long believed. Dutch researchers at Amsterdam UMC are the first to map the complete nerve network of the clitoris in high resolution. "I saw incredibly large white cables," says researcher Bernadette de Bakker.

Keramiekmuseum Princessehof in Leeuwarden highlights the rich, centuries-old Dutch coffee culture in a new ceramics exhibition. The display shows the diverse history of coffee drinking while also addressing the darker sides of this past.

Empty shelves at Albert Heijn, a diesel deal between Trump and Putin: unrest in the world and nearby makes us think about emergency situations. Dicks Dumpstore notices this in the sales of water filters.