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Vote for the Discoverer of the Year 11 December 2019Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the Year 2019? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Daniela Kraft wins Athena Prize 2019 10 December 2019Daniela Kraft will be awarded the NWO Athena Prize 2019 in a ceremony at the CHAINS Chemistry Conference on 10 December. The prize recognizes excellen...
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GDP? Get rid of it! 10 December 2019Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most powerful indicator in the world. And that while a large part of the scientific community sees it as an outdat...
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Superconductivity theory under attack 28 November 2019Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a 'strange' metal. The really strange thing, however, ...
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Plastic Spotter: spot plastic in the canals of Leiden 27 November 2019Help us spot and clean up the plastic in the canals of Leiden! Leiden University is calling on the good folk of Leiden to help our researchers study t...
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The promises and the dark side of stem cells 21 November 2019Geneticist Hans Clevers will give the first Niko Tinbergen lecture new style on 10 December, which is all about stem cells. The young Leiden professor...
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Master's students Data Science present solutions to central government and the House of Representatives 20 November 2019On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior off...
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How mammoth poop contributes to antibiotics research 18 November 2019PhD student Doris van Bergeijk brought 40,000-year-old bacteria from mammoth poop back to life. She hopes to find new information that can help resear...
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Leiden iGEM students win prize with squid protein 12 November 2019The Leiden students who participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition have won the prize for best production. They developed a way to have ba...
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Transition to electric vehicles puts heavy pressure on production of critical metals 11 November 2019The current production of a number of critical metals is insufficient for the large-scale transition to electric vehicles. This is the conclusion of a...
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How an Alzheimer related protein forms plaques 08 November 2019Neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, are characterised by aggregates of protein in the brain. The connection of these aggregates to the...
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Annual LION physics image award 31 October 2019Finally, it's high time for the yearly LION Image award. Send us your most impressive, beautiful or insightful physics image, and win eternal fame on ...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival 29 October 2019A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive 24 October 2019Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator 21 October 2019Emeritus professors Dirk van Delft and Frits Berends both channelled their inner Sherlock Holmes as they delved into the life and work of the great ph...