In the media
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Leiden Professor convenes precision medicine workshop at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute 26 April 2017Professors Simcha Jong (Leiden University) and Rifat Atun (Harvard University) convened an exploratory seminar to discuss challenges for health system...
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Research on the effects of pesticides and manure on water quality in ditches 27 March 2017Radio interview with CML researchers Martina Vijver and Henrik Barmentlo in the NTR radio programme: Nieuws en Co on Friday 24 March 2017. The researc...
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Reuse and recycling of mobile phones 13 March 2017Industrial Ecologist Rene Kleijn has been in the consumer watchdog TV show Radar which has been broadcasted Monday 27th of February at 20:30 (NPO 1). ...
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A breakthrough in salt tolerance knowledge for application in saline agriculture 23 February 2017The Salt Farm Texel, supported by a number of professors from various Dutch universities, offered a report on saline agriculture to the Minister for A...
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Corentin Coulais in NRC and New Scientist 16 February 2017Newspaper NRC and popular scientific magazine New Scientist write about Corentin Coulais’ research on one-way-traffic metamaterials. He published a pa...
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Joost Frenken on Radio 1 Langs de Lijn en Omstreken 01 February 2017Physicist Joost Frenken was interviewed on the radio show 'Langs de Lijn en Omstreken' (Radio 1) about the recent discovery of superconductive graphen...
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Interview Mare: Microplastics are everywhere, we don't know yet if that does no harm 30 January 2017Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environment. At CML research have been conducted in the distribution of these plastics on beach...
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Tjerk Oosterkamp in New Scientist on Elfstedentocht 10 January 2017Because the last Elfstedentocht celebrates its twentieth anniversary, New Scientist spoke with physics professor Tjerk Oosterkamp about his research o...
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Leiden astronomers in astronomy podcast 19 December 2016Five Leiden astronomers tell about science in the podcast Astronomy et al. This podcast was set up by Ricardo Garcia Soto in September 2016 and is foc...
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Pedro Russo on gender preconceptions on Times Higher Education 07 December 2016Three in four scientists depicted in primary school science textbooks are men, according to a recent study by Observatory scientist Pedro Russo. In an...
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DWDD University uses Leiden Physics experiments 05 December 2016In the latest episode of DWDD University on 'Light', Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used a number of experiments from the Leiden Physics Practicum Lab. He sh...
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Publication PhD student Eva Kritikou accepted in Scientific Reports: 30 November 2016A recent publication by Biopharmaceutics PhD-candidate Eva Kritikou has been accepted by the renowned scientific journal Scientific Reports.
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Winner Physics Image Award is Volkskrant Image of the Week 28 November 2016Vera Meester has won the annual Physics Image Award 2016, with her photo of 'smiling' colloids. The Volkskrant published the picture as Image of the W...
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36 ditches as living lab for water quality 14 November 2016On Monday 14 November, the first spadeful of earth was dug for the construction of the Living Lab, an experimental test site to study living organisms...
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Leiden Wall formulas on TV channel Omroep West 08 November 2016On Thursday 3 November, Leiden University celebrated the official opening of two wall formulas in the Leiden city centre. Snell's law and the formula ...