In the media
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Computer program AlphaStar reaches professional level in video game StarCraft II 21 November 2019For the first time, a computer can compete with the very best human players in StarCraft II, a video game played by tens of thousands at a professiona...
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‘Nothing is so special about human intelligence, that it cannot be replicated in a machine’ 07 November 2019Is the possibility of computers making decisions for us in the future realistic? Holger Hoos, professor of Machine Learning, gives his opinion about t...
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Puzzlegami: Martin van Hecke Lab in the media 17 October 2019The Van Hecke group published in Nature Physics about programmable origami, which was covered in the following media.
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Leiden Observatory comet research goes viral 19 September 2019From Mexico and Indonesia to China and Italy: people from all over the world read about the Leiden Observatory publication on the birthplace of comets...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Ten years later: what about Erik Verlinde and his theory? 09 August 2019Ten years after its introduction, the controversial idea of Erik Verlinde on gravity is still a hotly debated topic, and is still surrounded by a clou...
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Carel ten Cate in international media about a dancing cockatoo 10 July 2019Snowball the cockatoo gained world fame on social media. Millions of people saw him dance to Queen and The Backstreet Boys. In the journal Current Bio...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials 21 June 2019The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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Daniela Kraft about freezing soap bubbles 20 June 2019Physicists at Virginia Tech in the US investigated how a soap bubble freezes to become a beautiful ice dome. This only happens when the surrounding ai...
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Nienke Beets wins prize for connecting nature and art 14 June 2019Nienke Beets of the Leiden Hortus botanicus has won the brand new Joke 't Hart Prize for connecting nature and art. For the botanical garden in Leiden...
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Leiden discovery of planetary births is worldwide news 14 June 2019In Germany, the United States and even in Vietnam: all over the world, the Leiden discovery of the birth of two planets was shared. Astronomer Sebasti...
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Danica Mast in Mare on using technology to move people 09 April 2019Danica Mast, PhD candidate at LIACS, investigates how technology can encourage people to move more. In Mare she explains more about the so-called exer...
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Martina Vijver on nanoparticles at Paradiso's Science & Cocktails 04 April 2019Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver of the Institute of Environmental Sciences has given a public talk at Paradiso Amsterdam for Science & Cockt...
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Nathaniel Martin in de Volkskrant about toilets in space 28 March 2019German scientists and NASA have developed a bacteria-killing coating for space toilets. With this coating they hope to protect astronauts in space sta...