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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students 01 June 2021
Mathematician 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 plants 18 May 2021
A 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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BBC Science Focus names Ewine van Dishoeck as one of the six women who are changing chemistry 12 February 2021
On 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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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture 25 January 2021
Food 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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Women researchers shook up the world of bird song 15 September 2020
For 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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Cell-based medicinal products: grant rejected, paper published 26 June 2020
Cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) belong to an innovative and heterogeneous group of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs)....
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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients 30 March 2020
Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming! 25 March 2020
Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Huub de Groot breaks down artificial photosynthesis 12 December 2019
In a promotional video for the SUNRISE initiative, prof. Huub de Groot explains the impact and ideas behind artificial photosynthesis.
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize 07 October 2019
Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019
Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials 21 June 2019
The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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Nienke Beets wins prize for connecting nature and art 14 June 2019
Nienke Beets of the Leiden Hortus botanicus has won the brand new Joke 't Hart Prize for connecting nature and art. For the botanical garden in Leiden...
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Martina Vijver on nanoparticles at Paradiso's Science & Cocktails 04 April 2019
Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver of the Institute of Environmental Sciences has given a public talk at Paradiso Amsterdam for Science & Cockt...
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UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets 21 March 2019
The International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme, with CML researcher Ester van der Voet as member, has prepared a report ...