In the media
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Large media attention for Spinoza Prize Michel Orrit23 June 2017An important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.
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Various media on drug research Mario van der Stelt15 June 2017Media in the Netherlands and abroad reported extensively about the drug research led by Leiden chemist Mario van der Stelt. In this research, Van der ...
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Former Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek nominated for New Scientist Talent prize29 May 2017Former Chemistry PhD student Tiddo Mooibroek is one of the 25 nominees for the title New Scientist Science Talent 2017. Nobel prize winner Ben Feringa...
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SBB team wins Philips Innovation Award12 May 2017On Monday May 8th, two Leiden Startups took part in the finals of the Philips Innovation Awards. One Leiden venture, Levels Diagnostics, was selected ...
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Leiden Professor convenes precision medicine workshop at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute26 April 2017Professors Simcha Jong (Leiden University) and Rifat Atun (Harvard University) convened an exploratory seminar to discuss challenges for health system...
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Research on the effects of pesticides and manure on water quality in ditches27 March 2017Radio interview with CML researchers Martina Vijver and Henrik Barmentlo in the NTR radio programme: Nieuws en Co on Friday 24 March 2017. The researc...
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Reuse and recycling of mobile phones13 March 2017Industrial Ecologist Rene Kleijn has been in the consumer watchdog TV show Radar which has been broadcasted Monday 27th of February at 20:30 (NPO 1). ...
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A breakthrough in salt tolerance knowledge for application in saline agriculture23 February 2017The Salt Farm Texel, supported by a number of professors from various Dutch universities, offered a report on saline agriculture to the Minister for A...
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Corentin Coulais in NRC and New Scientist16 February 2017Newspaper NRC and popular scientific magazine New Scientist write about Corentin Coulais’ research on one-way-traffic metamaterials. He published a pa...
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Joost Frenken on Radio 1 Langs de Lijn en Omstreken01 February 2017Physicist Joost Frenken was interviewed on the radio show 'Langs de Lijn en Omstreken' (Radio 1) about the recent discovery of superconductive graphen...
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Interview Mare: Microplastics are everywhere, we don't know yet if that does no harm30 January 2017Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environment. At CML research have been conducted in the distribution of these plastics on beach...
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Tjerk Oosterkamp in New Scientist on Elfstedentocht10 January 2017Because the last Elfstedentocht celebrates its twentieth anniversary, New Scientist spoke with physics professor Tjerk Oosterkamp about his research o...
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Leiden astronomers in astronomy podcast19 December 2016Five Leiden astronomers tell about science in the podcast Astronomy et al. This podcast was set up by Ricardo Garcia Soto in September 2016 and is foc...
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Pedro Russo on gender preconceptions on Times Higher Education07 December 2016Three in four scientists depicted in primary school science textbooks are men, according to a recent study by Observatory scientist Pedro Russo. In an...
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DWDD University uses Leiden Physics experiments05 December 2016In the latest episode of DWDD University on 'Light', Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used a number of experiments from the Leiden Physics Practicum Lab. He sh...