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Magic tricks reduce stress, pain and anxiety during vaccinations23 April 2026Injections can be a source of stress and anxiety for children. The Willem-Alexander Children’s Hospital is exploring ways to improve the experience. T...
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Smiling, yawning and gesturing: why we unconsciously imitate one anotherMimicry 22 April 2026By copying each other’s non-verbal behaviour, we gain access to what others think and feel. In psychology, this is known as mimicry. As part of her Ph...
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How should we measure progress? Rutger Hoekstra nominated for prestigious Frontiers Planet PrizeSustainability 22 April 2026Well-being economist Rutger Hoekstra has been named as one of the 26 National Champions of the international Frontiers Planet Prize. He is receiving t...
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Grants for research on immune cells, vegan cheese and PFAS detectionGrants and appointments for Faculty of Science 21 April 2026Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognis...
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Helen Duffy appointed to Spanish Truth CommissionAppointment 21 April 2026The Spanish government has established a truth commission to address human rights violations committed during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent...
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Call for papers on Quantum Technology and Law21 April 2026Leiden Law School (departments of Private Law and eLaw) invites you to contribute a chapter in a book on Quantum Technology and Law. The book will con...
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EU action against unjustified price disparities in consumer goods across Member StatesResearch 21 April 2026Ben Van Rompuy, Associate Professor of European Competiton Law, appeared on 15 April as an expert before the European Parliament's Committee on the In...
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From nanoscale to whole organism: at the Cell Observatory, researchers study life in detailMY JOB ROCKS 21 April 2026About forty microscopes, various laboratories, and some 15,000 zebrafish: that’s Sylvia le Dévédec's workplace. She is one of the managers of the Leid...
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Chemotherapy without side effects: Matthijs Hakkennes helps find the needle in the haystack fasterCancer research 20 April 2026Chemotherapy, but without hair loss or extreme fatigue. It may be possible if the toxic drug only becomes active where it is ‘switched on’ by light. M...
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Call for Abstracts: Workshop on ‘Digital and AI Governance at a Time of Geopolitical Upheaval’20 April 2026
Leiden University College and the Erasmus Center of Law and Digitalization, with the support of the Sectorplan SSH-Breed on Digitalization and the Net...
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Ammonia as a clean fuel: ‘Do not create a new nitrogen problem’20 April 2026Ammonia has been feeding the world for decades as a fertiliser and is now rapidly emerging as a carbon free fuel for shipping and industry. But if we ...
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Import in the Stone Age? How object biographies shed new light on the NeolithicUse-wear analysis 17 April 2026On April 22, Lasse van den Dikkenberg defended his dissertation: Living with Flint. For this, he examined flint finds from the Rhine-Meuse Delta. Thes...
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Leiden University joins OpenAIRE17 April 2026Leiden University has become a member of OpenAIRE, a European non-profit e-infrastructure organisation that supports open science. Leiden University L...
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‘Only in this way can we be prepared for both known and new infectious diseases’Inaugural lecture 16 April 2026Good and up to date data are crucial for effectively combating infectious diseases and protecting public health. Endowed professor Susan van den Hof a...
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What do sushi, climbing and smoking having in common? How we talk about riskInterview 16 April 2026Next week, Sara Perlstein will defend her PhD on risk talk: the everyday conversations we have about risks with people close to us. From eating sushi ...