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A matter of dark matter 14 October 2019
Is our universe built up out of warm or cold dark matter? The standard model assumes cold dark matter particles, but astronomer Sylvia Ploeckinger is ...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition 10 October 2019
A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...
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It takes two (or more) to build a telescope 07 October 2019
How do stars and galaxies form? What is dark matter? To answer these and other questions, we need increasingly large telescopes. And to build these, w...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars 01 October 2019
The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science 26 September 2019
Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer 23 September 2019
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy:...
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Prestigious Breakthrough Prize for first picture of black hole 23 September 2019
They are often referred to as ‘The Oscars of the Natural Sciences’: the Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. Thi...
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Ewine van Dishoeck awarded prestigious Schwarzschild Medal 11 September 2019
The German Astronomical Society has awarded the 2019 Karl Schwarzschild Medal to professor of Molecular astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck. She will rece...
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All comets in our solar system might come from the same place 09 September 2019
All comets might share their place of birth, new research says. For the first time ever, astronomer Christian Eistrup applied chemical models to fourt...
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Outreach programme spaceEU launched at one of the world’s largest science festivals 06 September 2019
On 5 September, spaceEU was launched at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, one of the world’s largest science, technology and media art festivals. ...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science 03 September 2019
With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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In Memoriam Lodewijk Woltjer 28 August 2019
Professor Lodewijk Woltjer passed away on 25 August 2019.
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science 14 August 2019
Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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Dutch-Japanese astronomic instrument measures 49 shades of far infrared 05 August 2019
The Dutch-Japanese made DESHIMA instrument has passed its first practical tests when measuring the distances and ages of distant galaxies. The core of...
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Rychard Bouwens granted precious research time on ALMA telescope 31 July 2019
Rychard Bouwens from the Leiden Observatory is the first scientist in the Netherlands to be assigned a Large Programme on the state-of-the-art ALMA te...