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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands 03 February 2023BrainTrain: an initiative from Leiden University in which a team of students visit high schools to make adolescents more resilient against disinformat...
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Dr Carwyn Morris awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant 03 February 2023Dr Carwyn Morris (LIAS) was awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant, as part of an international consortium with 19 colleagues.
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Evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants takes news outlets by storm 03 February 2023Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has...
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LUMC researchers: matching medication to DNA leads to 30% fewer side effects 03 February 2023According to an international group of researchers led by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), patients experience 30% fewer serious side effects ...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023After 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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Saxion students visit the Faculty of Archaeology 02 February 2023The end of January arrived together with welcome guests from Saxion University of Applied Sciences. As a part of their two-day-long visit to South Hol...
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Greek Ambassador visits Faculty of Archaeology 02 February 2023On January 17th 2023, Caterina Ghini, Ambassador of Greece to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, visited the Faculty of Archaeology. Her Excellency reach...
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Report presented at expert workshop on EU's proposed regulation on preventing and combatting child sexual abuse 02 February 2023Workshop brings multidisciplinary experts together to produce interdisciplinary outcomes on the EU’s Proposal for a Regulation to prevent and combat c...
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants 02 February 2023Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has...
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All episodes of Breingeheim now available on Spotify 01 February 2023All five episodes of the first season of 'Breingeheim' are now available to listen on Spotify. The first season of the podcastseries is about the soci...
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023) 01 February 2023On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Le...
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Anna-Alexandra Marhold in Dutch newspaper NRC: ‘The export ban on chips against China cannot be justified’ 01 February 2023Chip war export restrictions for ASML are most likely in conflict with the Word Trade Organisation’s regulations, claims Anna-Alexandra Marhold. China...
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European subsidy for Ellen de Bruijn: ‘Hormonal fluctuations in women have been ignored for too long in brain research’ 31 January 2023Psychologist Ellen de Bruijn studies the effects of hormonal fluctuations on behaviour and on the brain over a woman's life course. With an ERC Consol...
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’ 31 January 2023Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reali...
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’ 31 January 2023With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...