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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples 24 September 2020
How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020
For 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...
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Cells ‘walk’ to firm ground 11 September 2020
A new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...
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Academic year Biology starts with 2020 pieces less litter 07 September 2020
The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the I...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020
From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Computers help wood anatomists with wood identification 07 September 2020
The most commonly used method for the taxonomic identification of tree trunks is wood anatomy. The number of experts in this area is decreasing, and e...
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Four bold Faculty of Science researchers receive NWO XS grants 31 August 2020
Four scientists from the Faculty of Science will receive a grant of up to 50,000 euros in the Open Competition Domain Science - XS from science financ...
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Omid Karami receives the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award during festive ceremony 27 August 2020
In a festive and intimate award ceremony, plant scientist Omid Karami received the first edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award out o...
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Tutors receive digital support 20 August 2020
In the Leiden Tutor programme, Leiden students support junior school pupils from lower socio-economic backgrounds. This is a difficult task so the dep...
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Scientists find strong evidence that wasting syndrome is the same for all organisms 10 August 2020
An interdisciplinary team of Leiden researchers has discovered that wasting syndrome, a severe byproduct of tuberculosis, is the same for all humans a...
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Briegel winner in global competition by the Moore Foundation 28 July 2020
Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural biology in Leiden, has received a prestigious incentive from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. With ...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic 14 July 2020
A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...
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Questions in museums as a trigger to learn 14 July 2020
The type of question that museums ask about objects in their collection influences conversations between parents and children. Researchers from Leiden...
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Balanced lethal systems: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra 07 July 2020
Ben Wielstra studies balanced lethal systems, in which half of the offspring die before birth. In the journal Current Biology, he explains in an acces...
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Flower bulbs to treat Alzheimer's 23 June 2020
The substance galanthamine from flower bulbs can fight symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Nadeem Akram investigated how daffodils can optimally produce ...