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Drones help write new history of Caribbean 13 October 2016
Drones are proving to be a good means of mapping man-made changes in the landscape. Geophysicist Till Sonneman and his colleagues (archaeology) are ex...
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Leiden researchers win public award in Smartest Project contest 04 October 2016
A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...
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Exploring new methods at Research Lab Legal Data Science 02 October 2016
How can data analytics be used as a research method in the field of legal research? This question was addressed during the Research Lab Legal Data Sci...
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the Law of Unmanned Aircraft Systems 20 September 2016
Benjamin Scott, master student Air and Space law in Leiden, was given a unique chance by Professor Pablo Mendes De Leon. Benjamin was allowed to edit...
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Dating with electrodes struck to your skin 19 September 2016
Four thousand visitors immersed themselves in art and science during Leiden's Night of Art and Science on 17 September. They could choose from dozens ...
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Eight new MOOCs 14 September 2016
This autumn Leiden University is launching eight new MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are available free to the general public. You can follow...
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Hyperlinks to antiquity 13 September 2016
Until the 18th century, Latin annotations of well-known classical texts were an important source of scientific knowledge, but over the course of time ...
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A treasure trove of legal data 13 September 2016
Data science offers great opportunities for legal research, according to Simone van der Hof and Bart Custers (eLaw). But at the same time, we have to...
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Sports and data analytics: discovering the unknown known 07 September 2016
The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joos...
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Latest hardware for computer research on medical imaging 06 September 2016
The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed har...
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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones 30 August 2016
We are pleased to announce that on the 30th of September Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (The Netherlands)...