In the media
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How can the voices of African scientists be heard? 22 November 2023
African researchers want more international research collaborations for better representation in the scientific community. As of now, their voices are...
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Opening of new DNA-GER research network 27 October 2023
On October 26, the Dutch Embassy in Berlin celebrated the opening of a new research network for Dutch academics in Germany. Dutch minister of Educatio...
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Translational data science: applications in health care 05 October 2023
How can you tie together scientific research and practical applications? That is exactly what Professor of Translational Data Science Marco Spruit is ...
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Urban green infrastructure: making future cities more sustainable 07 August 2023
Urban green infrastructure has the ability to make make cities more sustainable. However, the exact implementation of green infrastructure and the cho...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023
Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023
After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious 31 January 2023
Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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The search for a ‘quantum advantage’ 12 December 2022
Proving a quantum computer to be quicker than a normal one is one step closer. After a breakthrough in speeding up classical algorithms, researchers V...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places' 25 November 2022
With his essay 'Why science?', mathematics prodigy Lars Pos (18) won the Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize. Within the theme 'The fascinating workings of ...
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The effect of nanoparticles on our planet 17 November 2022
‘Solar panels, toothpaste and sport socks. What do these things have in common?’ Martina Vijver, professor of ecotoxicology begins her TEDx-talk. Watc...
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Leiden Legal Technologies Program runner up for Gouden Zandloper 28 September 2022
The Leiden Legal Technologies Program is runner up for the Gouden Zandloper (Golden Hourglass) for Legal Education & Research, the prize for the most ...
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Lorentz Center kicks off lustrum with TEDx talk 27 January 2022
The Lorentz Center is 25 years old. A good reason for them to contribute to a series of TEDx lectures for Leiden City of Science. Arjen Doelman, direc...
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Century-old electrochemistry law gets update 19 January 2022
The Gouy-Chapman theory describes what happens near an electrode when it is in contact with a salt solution, but this description does not match real...