Scientists pounce on Lowlands Public – Telegraaf.nl

BIDDINGHUIZEN –

The Lowlands Visitor is the next edition experimental fodder for scientists. Subjects are experts from the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) festival goers this year to DNA testing to get a better understanding of trace evidence. In the so-called NFI Crime Lab interested can participate in various experiments such as dragging someone over a certain distance

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Using a forensic lamp researchers then look where the tracks are located, let NFI Thursday. In this way, the institute wants to get a better picture of where offenders leave their mark. These are often not be discerned with the naked eye, but are important for finding a DNA profile of the perpetrator which is of great interest may be in a criminal investigation.

The experiment is part of the science program Lowlands Science, which organizes the festival along with campaign office BKB, New Scientist and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). It was already known that scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will look at how much is being flirted at the three-day music festival, gedatet and / or sexed.

Furthermore, the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre comes with a special oudersdomspak. Allows visitors can experience the limitations as you get older, such as poorer visibility and stiff joints. The medical center wants it this way, inter alia, to find out how young people perceive aging.

In addition, the Applied Neuroscience Group investigates the influence of light and music on the degree of relaxation. And scientists from the University of Tilburg, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and AYA take the festival visitors in Biddinghuizen as guinea pigs to find out if young people with cancer more psychosocial problems than healthy peers.

Utrecht University Further testing in collaboration with the Brain Foundation or lowlanders on the same wavelength. In the so-called Mutual Brainwave Machine are two people facing each other with EEG caps on their heads, which measure electromagnetic brain waves

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