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Students colonise Mars with E. coli bacteria21 April 2016Using E. coli bacteria to convert a toxic compound in the soil on Mars into oxygen to make life on the planet possible. A team of thirteen Leiden stud...
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Incentive for research on exoplanets and free will31 March 2016Two Leiden scientists - Ignas Snellen and Bernhard Hommel - have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. The grant will fund their research over the comin...
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Prestigious Edinburgh Medal awarded for ‘Astronomy for Development’30 March 2016The Edinburgh Medal 2016 had been awarded to both Kevin Govender of the Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) and the International Astronomical U...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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Students map Milky Way with dwarf stars17 March 2016Isabel van Vledder and Dieuwertje van der Vlugt, 2 astronomy students from Leiden University, have mapped the entire Milky Way galaxy in dwarf stars f...
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Investment Grant NWO Medium for Simon Portegies Zwart03 March 2016A revolutionary supercomputer with energy-efficient parts that are available in the shops. Professor of Computational Astrophysics Simon Portegies Zwa...
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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers12 February 2016Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Major NWO subsidies for research on dark matter and quantum experiments10 February 2016Astronomer Koen Kuijken and physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp have each been awarded a major subsidy by NWO. The funding will allow them to construct new res...
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TOP grant for four of Leiden’s top scientists02 February 2016
Four scientists will receive the TOP grant for Physical Sciences from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). They are astronomer ...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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Jan Hendrik Oort: star of Dutch radio astronomy09 December 2015The success of Dutch radio astronomy in the last century was largely due to Leiden astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort. He made astute use of circumstances in...
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How to engage and educate the global public with science?04 November 2015Massive science communication projects should be based on strong and relevant science cases. They should engage with a large number of stakeholders, n...
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Mysterious ripples racing through planet-forming disk14 October 2015An international team of astronomers, including Leiden’s Christian Ginski, has discovered previously unobserved structures in a debris disk around a n...
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International Space University 31st Space Studies Program 2018 to convene in the Netherlands06 October 2015The International Space University is proud to announce that the 31st annual Space Studies Program (SSP) session will convene in the Netherlands durin...
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Start of construction of camera for European giant telescope29 September 2015Leiden scientists will be working on the development of a camera for the European Extremely Large Telescope that is currently under construction. On 2...