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Studying archaeological roads gives insights into connectivity and movement 10 June 2024
Archaeologist Tuna Kalayci investigates roads in a recent edited book. What happens if we think of roads not only as containers of action but also as ...
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‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication 07 June 2024
‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Ph...
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Planet-forming discs around young low-mass star differs fundamentally from one around sun-like star 07 June 2024
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers, including Leiden Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck, h...
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Working together on the plastic problem: how to keep citizens engaged? 06 June 2024
What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic pollution? And does that motivation change over time? Liselotte Rambonn...
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Europa Lecture by Iyiola Solanke on ‘A decolonial approach to research and teaching in EU Law’ 06 June 2024
On 24 May, Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Fellow of Somerville College, gave the ...
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Smart monitoring of test subjects is the future of clinical research 06 June 2024
Knowing whether or not a treatment is working just by wearing your watch? Data scientist Ahnjili ZhuParris has identified a lot of opportunities for t...
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Malgieri's co-authored paper on PETs presented and published at FAccT Conference 2024 06 June 2024
Gianclaudio Malgieri's paper entitled 'The unfair side of Privacy Enhancing Technologies: addressing the trade-offs between PETs and fairness', coauth...
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at Association of European Competition Law Judges annual meeting 05 June 2024
Ben Van Rompuy participated as an invited expert in the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (AECLJ), which took ...
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New online platform launched to support global children's rights legislative reform 05 June 2024
In collaboration with UNICEF and University College Cork, Leiden University is delighted to launch a new online platform aimed to provide essential gu...
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Podcast: The Tragic Fate of Egyptologist Herta Mohr 04 June 2024
Leiden University recently named a new building for Egyptologist Herta Mohr. But who was she?
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LIFES: From Reusable Data to New Treatments and Faster Diagnoses 04 June 2024
Early diagnosis, new treatments, and personalised care: all of these are possible if we can better unlock the wealth of information hidden in health d...
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Experiment in Leiden SSH labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head 04 June 2024
You would normally not see public administration experts and water authority officials in a laboratory, let alone together. This is changing now, spec...
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Meuwese and Çapkurt awarded funding for algorithmic profiling research 04 June 2024
The social coalition 'Over Informatie Gesproken' (meaning ‘Speaking of Information’) recently approved eleven grant applications for research aimed at...
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Nutrition and fasting for the brain: why the Keto diet shows promise 03 June 2024
Autism, Alzheimer’s, and bipolar disorder: can the development of these mental health conditions be influenced by the ketogenic diet? Increasingly, re...
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AI model accurately predicts endometrial cancer recurrence 03 June 2024
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have developed an AI model that accurately predicts the risk of endometrial cancer recurr...