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The Netherlands and China work together to improve their wastewater management 17 April 2024
Netherlands and China can learn from each other to handle household and livestock wastewater more sensibly. In the FOREWARD project, scientists from L...
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Atherosclerosis resembles an autoimmune disease. Marie Depuydt graduated on this topic, with honours 17 April 2024
In addition to cholesterol and high blood pressure as risk factors for atherosclerosis, we may need to address our own immune system to prevent a hear...
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’ 16 April 2024
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, t...
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Leiden’s poo can help rid patients of resistant gut bacteria 16 April 2024
Transferring poo from healthy donors to the intestines of chronically ill people has beneficial effects on these recipients’ gut bacteria, also in the...
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Scientists discover the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way 16 April 2024
A European team of astronomers has discovered the largest stellar black hole in the Milky Way. It is more than thirty times as massive as our sun and ...
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New Science Library Open 15 April 2024
From study places to consulting collections and from a meeting with your faculty liaison to getting books after opening hours: the new Science Library...
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Netherlands Veganland: a good idea? These are the outcomes of the thought experiment! 12 April 2024
Less meat and dairy means more space for nature, leisure, climate, biodiversity, more justice, and it's good news for the economy. That's according to...
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Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant 11 April 2024
Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathem...
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The energy transition under the nanoscope: Gravitation funding for ANION project 11 April 2024
Bringing together chemists and physicists to thoroughly investigate how electrochemical processes work on the smallest scale. That is the goal of the ...
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Leiden University/LUMC to drop cum laude honour for Master’s in Medicine 10 April 2024
As of 1 September 2024, the cum laude honour will no longer be awarded for the Master’s in Medicine. The Executive Board recently decided to grant an ...
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The quantum computer: it doesn't exist yet, but still we understand increasingly better what problems it can solve 09 April 2024
How do we know what a quantum computer is good for when it hasn't been built yet? That's what PhD candidate Casper Gyurik investigated by combining tw...
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Academics requesting retraction of FAO report that misrepresents their research 09 April 2024
Paul Behrens (Leiden University) and Matthew Hayek (New York University) have responded to an FAO report on livestock pathways which misrepresented th...
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Optimisation software 'Kernel Tuner' ready for serious use 05 April 2024
LIACS assistant professor Ben van Werkhoven leads the development of software for optimising graphics processing units. By now, version 1.0 of 'Kernel...
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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products 04 April 2024
More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent ...
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Student cleans up archival data and uncovers two stellar cocoons 03 April 2024
While investigating 16 years of images of young stars from a retired astronomical camera, Leiden master's student Sam de Regt discovered that two of t...