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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht 05 July 2023For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a ...
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Grant Elise Mathilde Fund & LUF: Using virus to kill bacteria: design of innovative phage-antibiotic combination treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance 05 July 2023Phage therapy is a novel yet unmatured therapeutic approach in the face of the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dr. Tingjie Guo received a gr...
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This is how physicists use light to build complex structures 04 July 2023PhD candidate Petr Steindl creates complex structures of light using single photons. As a teenager, he wanted to study Czech poetry but decided on qua...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023 04 July 2023Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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A piece of rubber can't count. Right? 03 July 2023A block of rubber that can count to ten and even remember the order in which it is pressed. Physicists Martin van Hecke and Lennard Kwakernaak (Leiden...
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Sjoert van Velzen receives Vidi grant to solve 'riddles from the universe' 29 June 2023Minuscule elementary particles from space colliding with Earth can give us an insight into the distant objects they come from. But first, you need to ...
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Tackling climate change with the ground beneath our feet 29 June 2023Soil ecologist Emilia Hannula has been awarded a Vidi grant by NWO to examine how soil could become a promising ally in combating climate change and i...
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Can Parkinson's be stopped by unravelling protein fibres? Anne Wentink finds out with a Vidi grant from NWO 29 June 2023In brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, proteins clump together to form fibres. ‘Chaperone proteins’ unravel those fibres, but in the t...
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Chemotherapy without side effects? It’s possible, with light 29 June 2023Nausea, neurologic pain and hair loss: some of the severe side effects of chemotherapy. Not necessary, biochemist Liyan Zhang showed. Together with Le...
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Marcello Bonsangue new Scientific Director of the LIACS institute 29 June 2023Marcello Bonsangue will be the new Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from January 2024. Bonsangue has b...
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Surprising molecule helps detect protoplanets 28 June 2023A team of scientists, including Leiden Astronomer Alice Booth, has discovered silicon monosulfide molecules in the dust disk around a young star. Such...
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‘Ask scientists how to build the circular economy’ 27 June 2023Some governments and companies are pursuing a more circular economy, but what is the best way to get there? An international group of industrial ecolo...
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How a game can show that working together is essential in the nitrogen crisis 27 June 2023The Netherlands is embroiled in a complex nitrogen crisis. Berent Baris wants to use his NitroGenius game to demonstrate the complexity of this crisis...
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How Indonesian communities organise their own social security 26 June 2023Many poor people in Indonesia mainly rely on their family members, neighbours and the local community as a social safety net. One of the forms of aid ...
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New method to find Majorana’s tested for the first time 22 June 2023Fifteen years ago, an alternative technique to look for the elusive Majorana particles was conceived theoretically. But no one carried out the experim...