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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference12 June 2023Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research pr...
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National flower: The daisy is everywhere thanks to men with mowers06 June 2023The daisy has been crowned the Netherlands’ national flower. This was revealed on Sunday in the National Flower vote on the Vroege Vogels radio show. ...
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners30 May 2023X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as ...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland23 May 2023Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery23 May 2023There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those mo...
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BlackGEM telescopes begin hunt for gravitational-wave sources16 May 2023Three Dutch-Belgian telescopes have started operating at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile. This so-called BlackGEM array will scan the southern s...
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New research facility for the energy transition09 May 2023Leiden University is part of a Dutch consortium that will receive 4.7 million euros from NWO to build a facility that makes controlled, thin layers of...
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Looking at the big world of microbiology through the smallest lenses08 May 2023Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, died 300 years ago. 2023 has therefore been designated the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek year. The new Un...
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Radio show opens vote for national flower of the Netherlands08 May 2023The Netherlands doesn’t have a national flower. The Vroege Vogels radio show wants to change this and is holding a vote. Experts from Leiden Universit...
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet28 April 2023Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-base...
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Border tax on CO2 offers huge opportunity to fight climate change22 April 2023A tax on CO2 emissions from products entering the EU offers unprecedented opportunities in the fight against global warming. That is the conclusion of...
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Two thesis awards for research on electrochemical reactions20 April 2023Understanding the proces of electrochemical reactions is essential to improve the technology for the energy transition. Fuel cell cars, for example us...
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Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people'20 April 2023Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do y...
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Should we build a European mega-dam?20 April 2023A mega-dam around Europe is a possible solution as protection against rising sea levels. Whether that is really a good idea, was debated on by young p...