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Network failure Leiden UniversityAs of Monday morning, we have experienced problems with the university network. As a consequence, many services are not or only partly available.
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New way to form close double black holesA team of three Dutch astronomers from the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University found a new way to form two black holes that orbit each other...
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Solution to distortion effect STM scanning
Experimenten met STM-scanning op slecht geleidende materialen zijn uitdagend, en veroorzaken soms een verstoringseffect. Een nieuw model corrigeert vo...
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Artificial brain helps Gaia satellite catch speeding starsWith the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA’s Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our Galaxy to its...
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Views on AfricaIn the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is...
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Ingrid Leijten gives lecture at Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-NurembergOn 21 June, Ingrid Leijten gave a lecture at the Centre for Human Rights of the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in Germany. ...
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Bart Custers delivers keynote address on ransomwareOn June 16th, dr. Bart Custers, associate professor and head of research of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital technologies, delivered a keynote add...
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Monitoring the development of foster childrenFoster children’s behaviour is more problematic than that of their peers in ‘normal’ family situations. However, it is difficult to determine the exac...
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Leiden celebrates tenth anniversary of ERCThe European Research Council, better known as the ERC, turns ten this year, and researchers from Leiden celebrated this 23 June. The ERC is an import...
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Large media attention for Spinoza Prize Michel OrritAn important award like the Spinoza Prize, the 'Dutch Nobel Prize', generates lots of media attention. An overview.
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Cosmic recipe discovered for making glycerolA team of laboratory astrophysicists from Leiden University managed to make glycerol under conditions comparable to those in dark interstellar clouds....
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The cognitive abilities of birdsThe recently published book ‘Avian Cognition’ is the first multi-author book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the cognitive abilities of birds ...
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Prof. Visser reappointed as LUCAS Academic DirectorOn Tuesday 20 June 2017, the Humanities Faculty Board decided to reappoint Prof. Anthonya Visser as Academic Director of Leiden University Centre for ...
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Research proposal focused on the topic of military operations wins this year’s research conferenceIn the course ‘Research Design CSM’ Dr. Elke Devroe and Moniek Akerboom organized this year a competitive research conference where students of the Ma...
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Signing off after two yearsWhat do you do when you never got the chance to sign your name in the Sweat Room after graduation? Alumni Brantly Hancock and Kent Moore from the U.S....