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Bridging Sri Lanka and The Netherlands through astronomy 01 July 2021
'Find your way from the stars’, an online workshop on Nautical Astronomy, was one of the winners of The Netherlands Online Cultural Challenge 2020. Th...
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Open Science Hub receives 2021 Medal of Scientific Merit in Portugal 29 June 2021
Open Science Hub, a science education project coordinated by Leiden University, has won the 2021 Portuguese Medal of Scientific Merit for its contribu...
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Largest European astronomy congress for second time in Leiden 24 June 2021
For the second year in a row, the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society will take place online, from 28 June to 2 July 2021. Also this y...
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Four Leiden Science researchers go abroad with Rubicon grant 21 June 2021
Astronomer Donggang Wang, physicist Anne Meeussen and chemists Nick Gerrits and Elliot Mock: all four are receiving a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Res...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant 21 June 2021
Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Leiden astronomers calculate genesis of Oort cloud in chronological order 03 June 2021
A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort cloud in its entirety. Until now, only pa...
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Astronomer Danna Qasim wins two prizes for dissertation on methane ice 01 June 2021
Former Leiden Observatory PhD candidate Danna Qasim has won no less than two prestigious prizes with her thesis, titled 'Dark ice chemistry in interst...
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International astronomers come to the aid of secluded Cuban scientists 25 May 2021
An international collaboration of astronomers is organising a special online lecture series for physicists and astronomers in Cuba. The reason for thi...
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Capturing polarised light in the search for alien plants 18 May 2021
A new way to decipher the light from distant worlds could give us unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial photosynthesis, and maybe alien plants, fi...
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First discovery of methanol in a warm planet-forming disk 10 May 2021
An international team of researchers led by Alice Booth (Leiden University, the Netherlands) have discovered methanol in the warm part of a planet-for...
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Open Space project: where dance meets cosmology 10 May 2021
Until 15 May, Open Space will give room for artistic creation and experimentation in a partnership between artists and astronomers. The project is a c...
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High-mass stars are formed not from dust disk but from debris 03 May 2021
A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller siblings. Whereas small stars are often ...
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time 26 April 2021
A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to d...
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Leiden astronomer Henk van de Hulst: humble man with great authority 26 April 2021
World-famous among astronomers, humble, and averse to conventions. On 23 April, the Dutch biography about Henk van de Hulst was published. Biographer ...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives ERC Advanced Grant for research into the chemistry of new worlds 22 April 2021
Leiden Professor of Molecular astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). She has been ...