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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer 06 June 2023Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...
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Can we make bioplastics with artificial photosynthesis? 05 June 2023Mimicking photosynthesis to produce bioplastics sustainably and efficiently. Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Leiden Ins...
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Take a sneak peek at the new Gorlaeus building 05 June 2023Want to see how the most important building on our Science Campus at Leiden Bio Science Park is taking shape? Come and find out on Construction Day (D...
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What tiny isotopes reveal about planets outside our solar system 01 June 2023Planets existing in other solar systems contain invaluable information about the origin of planets and life. PhD candidate Yapeng Zhang has studied th...
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How to make cryptographic techniques more efficient? 01 June 2023Sharing scientific data, transferring money, or sending other sensitive information online: with cryptography, applications make sure your data does n...
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Applications that never crash again 31 May 2023Doing your taxes, Netflixing or driving a car: more and more daily activities are supported by computer applications. It is challenging and expensive ...
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners 30 May 2023X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as ...
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A quirky block of rubber as a calculator 30 May 2023PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called...
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Music sensitivity parrots put to the test 30 May 2023A meeting place for singing parrots. That is one of the ambitions of Michelle Spierings’ new project. With her awarded NWO XS grant, she wants to test...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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‘I use a statistical analysis to estimate my travel time by bike’ 26 May 2023Why use Google Maps when you can also calculate your bike route based on your own data. Statistician and cyclist Alexander Dürre sees statistics in ev...
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Hortus prefect visits Indonesia on knowledge mission 23 May 2023Hortus prefect Paul Keßler was a part of the delegation of Leiden researchers that traveled to Indonesia on a knowledge mission. In two weeks, he visi...
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How do you recognise the atmosphere of extraterrestrial lava worlds? 23 May 2023In the past 30 years, over 5,000 planets have been discovered outside our solar system. One common exoplanet is the lava world, a hot super-Earth with...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland 23 May 2023Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery 23 May 2023There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those mo...