In the media
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Nanoplastics found throughout the human body – how worried should we be? 21 June 2024The world is becoming clogged with plastic, with tiny plastic particles found everywhere, from the oceans’ depths to the mountain tops, soil, plants, ...
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PhD candidate from Leiden presents international student event 01 December 2021From pipetting in the lab to shining in front of the camera at a global student event. With 8.000 viewers watching the livestream, Marjolein Crooijman...
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Leiden research into corona waste ends up in New York Times 18 November 2021Face masks and plastic gloves are supposed to protect us from corona, but they are becoming an increasing problem for the environment. In a special se...
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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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Nathaniel Martin in podcast about antimicrobial resistance 23 September 2020Professor Biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin from the Institute of Biology Leiden is interviewed by the Netherlands Innovation Network on innovativ...
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National and international media attention for longevity gene 21 September 2020A publication in Nature Plants by a team of Leiden biologists has received national and international media attention. The researchers can have annual...
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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020For a long time, bird song was considered as a typical male trait. But over the last twenty years, research has shown that a lot of female songbirds s...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Carel ten Cate in international media about a dancing cockatoo 10 July 2019Snowball the cockatoo gained world fame on social media. Millions of people saw him dance to Queen and The Backstreet Boys. In the journal Current Bio...
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Nathaniel Martin in de Volkskrant about toilets in space 28 March 2019German scientists and NASA have developed a bacteria-killing coating for space toilets. With this coating they hope to protect astronauts in space sta...
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Michael Richardson in TV show Willem Wever about antibiotics from snake venom 05 March 2019'What do people do with snake venom?' That's the question 11-year-old Joep asked in Dutch TV show Willem Wever. Leiden Professor of Evolutionary devel...
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Carel ten Cate budgerigar study in various media 11 January 2019If male budgerigars can successfully open a puzzle box with food, they become more attractive to females. Biologist Carel ten Cate and Chinese colleag...
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Newest book Menno Schilthuizen popular in international media 07 May 2018The new book of Professor of Character evolution and biodiversity Menno Schilthuizen gained a lot of media attention. ‘Darwin comes to town – how the ...
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NPO1 interviews Carel ten Cate about intelligent birds 25 August 2017Last week Professor of Animal Behaviour Carel ten Cate was interviewed about intelligent birds, in response to the recent publication of his book 'Avi...
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Female Birdsong Is Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves 24 August 2017Last week Audubon published an article about the lack of female birdsong recordings and the community sourced project that is tackeling this skew.