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Open Space project: where dance meets cosmology10 May 2021Until 15 May, Open Space will give room for artistic creation and experimentation in a partnership between artists and astronomers. The project is a c...
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’07 May 2021On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth compan...
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An artistic view on the hidden fungi in the soil03 May 2021Music from a compostable cello, photographs and scents of fungi and a woven tapestry. With her upcoming multimedia project Super Organism, visual arti...
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C-SIDe project involves a broad selection of associates in solving cybersecurity problems30 April 2021Cyber-attacks, privacy-related problems or failures in functioning: many technologies that are used every day have security issues that are solved whe...
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Seven Leiden professors elected new members of KNAW28 April 2021Seven Leiden professors have been elected as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In total 23 new members will be ina...
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time26 April 2021A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to d...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'23 April 2021Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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TEMPORAL project helps improving hearing of the deaf22 April 2021Electrical inner ear prostheses like Cochlear Implants (CIs) help deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons to regain many of their communication abi...
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Government pledges millions for economic growth09 April 2021The government is investing 646 million euros and has set aside a further 3.5 billion to drive economic growth in the Netherlands. Much of the Nationa...
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615 million euros for quantum research09 April 2021Quantum Delta NL, a research programme in which Leiden University participates, has been awarded 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund to he...
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A lifestyle app or a children’s book? Summer school for scientists01 April 2021It’s about much more than learning how to write a readable piece or give a presentation that doesn’t send the audience to sleep. The intensive Science...
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Tatiana Afanassjewa public lectures about physics01 April 2021After a succesful first lecture, the Leiden physics institute LION is launching an online series of (Dutch language) lectures about physics, intended ...
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Free online course teaches you all about imaging30 March 2021How do you microscopically image zebrafish larvae? The new free online course ‘Imaging the Vertebrate embryo’ teaches you all about it. Leiden PhD can...
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New technology could prevent the mass cull of male chicks29 March 2021A staggering 6.5 billion chicks are killed worldwide every year. These are generally male chicks that are of no economic value. In Ovo has developed t...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award19 March 2021Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...