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A podium for science25 January 2021Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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Francesca Arici wants to raise maths awareness in society21 January 2021Mathematician Francesca Arici has joined the Raising Public Awareness Committee of the European Mathematical Society. She aims to coordinate and unite...
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?21 January 2021On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them...
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Holger Hoos appointed ACM Fellow18 January 2021On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...
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New book to improve and promote science with citizens18 January 2021The new open access book The Science of Citizen Science bundles insights into science that is conducted together with citizens, to promote this growin...
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How NeCEN helped develop the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine11 January 2021The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facil...
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How to share responsibility for polluting the atmosphere?04 January 2021In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
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IBL coordinates project to search for new medicines in marine biodiversity17 December 2020Gilles van Wezel of the Institute of Biology Leiden will lead a European consortium to search for new medicines and disease-suppressive microbes while...
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Promising test in Peru: tackling climate change whilst reducing poverty17 December 2020What if we start taxing carbon-intensive products such as electricity and gasoline, and at the same time compensate low-income households? Hauke Ward ...
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Predicting and preventing Covid-19: 1 million euros for corona research17 December 2020How is it that some covid-19 patients are affected much worse than others? Can we predict beforehand which of them will develop critical symptoms Prof...
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A hundred thousand programmes with Hedy!14 December 2020How can I teach children programming in a playful way? That's the question Felienne Hermans asked herself when she gave programming lessons to childre...
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International outreach project IAU100 awarded with Dutch Communication Award01 December 2020The international astronomy outreach project IAU100 has won the first Communication Award by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The initiative was foun...
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A YouTube channel for exoplanet researchers30 November 2020Professor Ignas Snellen has developed an online platform where exoplanet researchers can post videos about their work: exoplanet-talks.org. ‘For young...
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4.9 milion euros for unraveling the mysteries of black holes25 November 2020The Dutch Black Holes Consortium receives 4.9 million euros from NWO for unravelling the mysteries of black holes and other mysteries of the universe....
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Student team is crowdfunding for fast epidemic test kit23 November 2020Unfortunately, Covid-19 won’t be the last infectious disease to sweep across the world. To nip such diseases in the bud, a team of Leiden students is ...