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Astronomers spot benzene in planet-forming disk around star for first time 11 May 2023
An international team of astronomers including Leiden professor Ewine van Dishoeck has observed the benzene molecule (C6H6) in a planet-forming disk a...
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Experience the beauty of the universe 11 May 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allows us to look deeper into the universe than ever before. Not only does this provide a mass of data, but also...
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Roeland Merks new director Lorentz Center 11 May 2023
Roeland Merks is the new director of the Lorentz Center as of 1 September. He has been appointed for a period of five years. In addition, Merks will r...
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Fighting cancer with light (and a drug that self-assembles into nanoparticles) 10 May 2023
Chemotherapy that does not harm the body, but effectively fights cancer cells: that is the goal of chemist Sylvestre Bonnet and his team. During his P...
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Prize for school research project on butterfly wings 10 May 2023
Why are morpho butterflies blue? That is what high school students Frederique Kerstens and Koen van Griensven investigated in their high school profil...
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New research facility for the energy transition 09 May 2023
Leiden University is part of a Dutch consortium that will receive 4.7 million euros from NWO to build a facility that makes controlled, thin layers of...
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Counting lichens with your nose pressed to a tree 08 May 2023
It may look a little weird: you spot a person pressing their nose to a tree, clipboard at the ready. That is our PhD student Tim Claerhout, who is car...
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Looking at the big world of microbiology through the smallest lenses 08 May 2023
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, died 300 years ago. 2023 has therefore been designated the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek year. The new Un...
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Radio show opens vote for national flower of the Netherlands 08 May 2023
The Netherlands doesn’t have a national flower. The Vroege Vogels radio show wants to change this and is holding a vote. Experts from Leiden Universit...
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Hunting for life’s building blocks at minus 250 degrees Celsius 02 May 2023
Searching for life’s building blocks lightyears away is an important task of the James Webb Space Telescope. But how does it know what to look for? Ph...
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Bottom-dwellers thrive at foundations of offshore wind farms 02 May 2023
Offshore wind farms host more soil animals per square meter than the North Sea floor, discovered Leiden researchers. After 25 years, hundred times mor...
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Working on a more effective malaria vaccine: ‘safety jacket’ for parasites 28 April 2023
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is working on the development of a new malaria vaccine that will be more effective than existing ones. To ...
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet 28 April 2023
Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-base...
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Two Leiden professors appointed KNAW members 25 April 2023
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) announced on 25 April that it has appointed 18 new members. These include Leiden professors ...
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Border tax on CO2 offers huge opportunity to fight climate change 22 April 2023
A tax on CO2 emissions from products entering the EU offers unprecedented opportunities in the fight against global warming. That is the conclusion of...