In the media
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Football is simple. What is difficult is playing simple football.16 June 2021And that is what scientist Rens Meerhoff of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) explains in the NPO Radio 1 programme Focus. He ...
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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students01 June 2021Mathematician Oliver Nagy still vividly remembers the first time he learned about a random walk. ‘The lecturer told us to imagine a company of drunken...
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Capturing polarised light in the search for alien plants18 May 2021A new way to decipher the light from distant worlds could give us unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial photosynthesis, and maybe alien plants, fi...
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‘Food is the elephant in the room for human water use’11 May 2021From treatment plants to hot showers, emissions from water use in the U.S. are equal to 50 million cars driving around for a year. In The Washington P...
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Yamila Miguel on Universiteit van Nederland16 March 2021In a new video lecture (in English) on Universiteit van Nederland, astrophycisist Yamila Miguel tells us about the discovery of the most bizarre plane...
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Julia Cramer in Atlas24 February 2021Tonight 20:25, Julia Cramer, expert in quantum information and communication science, is a guest in the television science programma Atlas
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Data science helps in speed skating race for gold15 February 2021Winning gold in speed skating at the Olympic Games is not just a matter of training hard; data science can also lend a hand. Jeroen van der Eb of the ...
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BBC Science Focus names Ewine van Dishoeck as one of the six women who are changing chemistry12 February 2021On the occasion of the Women & Girls in Science Day, BBC Science Focus Magazine highlighted 6 prominent female chemists. Among them is Leiden professo...
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Programming to understand the world01 February 2021‘We are surrounded by software and thus it is important that every child learns to program,’ says Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden ...
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture25 January 2021Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy...
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Nathaniel Martin: why won’t antibiotics cure us anymore?12 January 2021Current means of fighting bacteria are no longer as good as they used to be because of antibiotic resistance. These days, people are dying from bacter...
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Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer11 January 2021Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
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Programming is easy to learn21 December 2020The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
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Technique from new cars helps with surgery selection Parkinson's disease09 November 2020When parking in reverse, your car skids off just a little, hitting the wall of the parking garage. On the car dashboard, a warning light immediately s...
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Micro boat makes world tour27 October 2020World wide press attention for the article and specifically the image of the 30 micrometer long micro boat 3DBenchy by Rachel Doherty, Daniela Kraft a...