In the media
-
Yamila Miguel on Universiteit van Nederland 16 March 2021In a new video lecture (in English) on Universiteit van Nederland, astrophycisist Yamila Miguel tells us about the discovery of the most bizarre plane...
-
Julia Cramer in Atlas 24 February 2021Tonight 20:25, Julia Cramer, expert in quantum information and communication science, is a guest in the television science programma Atlas
-
Data science helps in speed skating race for gold 15 February 2021Winning gold in speed skating at the Olympic Games is not just a matter of training hard; data science can also lend a hand. Jeroen van der Eb of the ...
-
BBC Science Focus names Ewine van Dishoeck as one of the six women who are changing chemistry 12 February 2021On the occasion of the Women & Girls in Science Day, BBC Science Focus Magazine highlighted 6 prominent female chemists. Among them is Leiden professo...
-
Programming to understand the world 01 February 2021‘We are surrounded by software and thus it is important that every child learns to program,’ says Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden ...
-
How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
-
Nathaniel Martin: why won’t antibiotics cure us anymore? 12 January 2021Current means of fighting bacteria are no longer as good as they used to be because of antibiotic resistance. These days, people are dying from bacter...
-
Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer 11 January 2021Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
-
Programming is easy to learn 21 December 2020The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
-
Technique from new cars helps with surgery selection Parkinson's disease 09 November 2020When parking in reverse, your car skids off just a little, hitting the wall of the parking garage. On the car dashboard, a warning light immediately s...
-
Micro boat makes world tour 27 October 2020World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...
-
Bots like you 05 October 2020Can we study what makes us human through the eyes of a robot? Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sci...
-
Nathaniel Martin in podcast about antimicrobial resistance 23 September 2020Professor Biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin from the Institute of Biology Leiden is interviewed by the Netherlands Innovation Network on innovativ...
-
National and international media attention for longevity gene 21 September 2020A publication in Nature Plants by a team of Leiden biologists has received national and international media attention. The researchers can have annual...
-
Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020For a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...