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Leiden industrial ecologist and Italian pharma company receive an EU grant to realise sustainable drug production20 July 2023With a €1.5 million European grant, industrial ecologist Stefano Cucurachi will work on more sustainable production methods for the pharmaceutical ind...
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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors?19 July 2023Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money...
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Using data science to promote a healthy life style11 July 2023Movement behaviours, such as physical activity, sleep, and the amount of time we sit each day, impact our health. Recently, more researchers are looki...
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Friend or foe? The role of AI in mitigating biases in HR11 July 2023AI is already being widely used in HR processes, but it is unclear whether these applications contribute to fair and inclusive decision making. Leiden...
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‘Ask scientists how to build the circular economy’27 June 2023Some governments and companies are pursuing a more circular economy, but what is the best way to get there? An international group of industrial ecolo...
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5 years Quantum Rules lab: ‘The best part is when you hear the penny drop with a student’21 June 2023Physics teacher Henk Buisman welcomes secondary school teachers ánd students who want to know more about quantum physics. And he likes to help them in...
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Nitrogen experts suggest switching from deposition to emission policy16 June 2023In an essay Professors Jan Willem Erisman (Leiden University), Chris Backes (Utrecht University) and Wim de Vries (Wageningen University) suggest amen...
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From bachelor student to entrepreneur: card game about elementary particles an unexpected hit15 June 2023A Christmas present that got out of hand: that's what prompted physics student Serafine Beugelink to start her own company. Her card game about elemen...
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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference12 June 2023
Researchers 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...