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Parade of creative science communication products 23 December 2019From bedtime stories about mathematics to podcasts about microplastics and games on weeds: master students from the Science Communication & Society tr...
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Students make podcasts about micro- and bioplastics 20 December 2019Four Master's students Science Communication & Society made two podcasts on the theme Plastic for the end project of their study programme. With the p...
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Dutch youth unfamiliar with native animal species 06 September 2019For the first time research has been done on species literacy in the Netherlands. Children in primary schools know about 1 in 3 native animal species....
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Outreach programme spaceEU launched at one of the world’s largest science festivals 06 September 2019On 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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Leiden students help children from The Hague: 'Now I can read and understand what I've read.' 30 July 2019There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
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How do you make citizen science successful? 14 June 2019Mapping out the problem of plastic pollution requires a lot of data over a large area. That's why scientists are increasingly turning to volunteers fo...
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Tackling local societal challenges through science 28 February 2019Bringing science, technology and innovation to places that normally do not have access to these areas of knowledge. This is the goal of the first Open...
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage 26 February 2019In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Fake or real? What children think of dinosaur fossils and replicas 16 July 2018Children find that both dinosaur fossils and replicas belong in a museum, but they appreciate the real objects more. This is shown by research from Le...
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Throw a party for science communication 23 April 2018Although both government and the public would like scientists to share their work with the widest possible audience, this does not always seem an easy...
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Leiden scientists and students in the media about Stephen Hawking 15 March 2018Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking passed away in his hometown of Cambridge on 14 March. Newspapers, radio and television stations interviewed Lei...
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Cutting edge science research to broaden youth participation in science & technology fields 15 February 2018On 7 February, the first co-creation event of the Expanding (Event) Horizons project took place at Leiden University. Nearly 30 educators, scientists ...
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Exaggeration in medical news starts with the press release 02 January 2018Medical research is often exaggerated in the news. Medical journalists are not the only ones guilty of such sloppiness; results are also often exagger...
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Dr. Julia Cramer wins the NWO Minerva Prize for 2017 15 September 2017Julia Cramer is the winner of NWO's Minerva Prize for 2017. Cramer will receive the prize for her research in the field of quantum science and technol...
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Math trail Leiden 19 January 2017The Math trail Leiden has been developed as part of a final project of the Master specialisation Science Communication and Society of Leiden Universit...