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Discoverer of the Year Paul Behrens: ‘We’re running out of time’ 18 November 2019Earlier this year, the public voted environmental scientist Paul Behrens Discoverer of the Year 2018. Behrens is an interdisciplinary scientist who wa...
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Etymology calendar: every day a word and its history 18 November 2019The Etymology Calendar for 2020, which was compiled by five linguistics students from Leiden University, has now hit the shops. After the resounding s...
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Four pressured months trying to solve society’s woes 05 November 2019In the National Think Tank, 20 young academics spend four months mulling over a solution to a societal problem. Two Leiden alumni tell us more.
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Rebuilding Palmyra in Minecraft 04 November 2019With RoMeincraft, you get to play the popular computer game Minecraft while learning about the ancient Romans. RoMeincraft, the project of the VALUE F...
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It takes two (or more) to build a telescope 07 October 2019How do stars and galaxies form? What is dark matter? To answer these and other questions, we need increasingly large telescopes. And to build these, w...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament 24 September 2019‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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Andrea Evers installed as a new KNAW member 16 September 2019Health psychologist Andrea Evers is one of the 19 new members, selected by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), who have been in...
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Using statistics to prevent the loss of blood donors 10 September 2019The Sanquin blood bank gathers data on every donation. Around 720,000 donations are made every year. ‘That generates a mountain of highly valuable dat...
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Deadly infections on the increase: urgent need for new antibiotics 09 September 2019Globally, the number of deaths from infections is on the rise as more bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. New classes are desperately needed. A ...
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Knowledge of worldwide cultures 20 August 2019Leiden has an international reputation as a stronghold of knowledge about cultures worldwide. Under the umbrella name of LeidenGlobal, Leiden Universi...
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EU awards 18 million euros for research into new antibiotics 24 July 2019An international consortium of research groups is aiming to develop novel antibiotics against the tuberculosis bacteria and two other deadly bacteria....
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School's out! But not for head teachers 10 July 2019Many head teachers will have to try and fill staffing gaps this summer. Assistant Professor Kim Stroet, who is researching pupil motivation, is worrie...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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From (no) sex in Japan to environmental policy: ICAS 11 is coming to town 26 June 2019The walls of Paul van der Velde’s study at the International Institute for Asian Studies are full of neat rows of post-it notes. As organiser in chief...
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Municipality and University join forces to help children with behavioural problems 20 June 2019A Preventive Intervention Team that investigates children with behavioural problems and trains their social skills in order to prevent school dropout ...