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Outreach programme spaceEU launched at one of the world’s largest science festivals 06 September 2019
On 5 September, spaceEU was launched at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, one of the world’s largest science, technology and media art festivals. ...
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'Lower emissions and successful farming can go hand in hand' 05 September 2019
Circular agriculture and more nature are important to reduce harmful emissions and to give a new impetus to biodiversity. But is that compatible with ...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans 02 September 2019
Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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Gravitation Grant: more than twenty million for sustainable crops 02 September 2019
The project MiCRop receives 20.3 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). MiCRop will unravel the microbial c...
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Gravitation Grant for combining human and artificial intelligence 30 August 2019
The project Hybrid Intelligence receives 19 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The consortium consists ...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019
Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands 22 August 2019
Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and...
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Students from all corners of the world 21 August 2019
Callum is from Ireland, Sharitah is from The Hague and Kirsten is from Manilla. The new students taking part in the HOP week from 19 to 23 August come...
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Leiden students help children from The Hague: 'Now I can read and understand what I've read.' 30 July 2019
There is an enormous disparity between children from low and high socio-economic backgrounds. In the Leiden Tutor Programme Leiden students and scient...
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EU awards 18 million euros for research into new antibiotics 24 July 2019
An international consortium of research groups is aiming to develop novel antibiotics against the tuberculosis bacteria and two other deadly bacteria....
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NWA grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain 23 July 2019
Physicists Lucia Bossoni and Martina Huber have been awarded an NWA Ideeëngenerator-grant for research into iron nanoparticles in the brain. These nan...
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How public money for science leads to new medicines 22 July 2019
Public funding for fundamental research is essential for innovation and the development of new medicines. This is demonstrated by Professor Science Ba...
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Photo report: this is what math conference Equadiff looks like 18 July 2019
The winner of the 'Nobel Prize for Mathematics' was there, Mayor Henri Lenferink was there, and 550 enthusiastic participants were there: Equadiff 201...
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Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands 18 July 2019
As long as we humans have existed, we have told each other stories. But how does a story change each time it is told? Which elements stick and which o...
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Wall formula about Huygens' pendulum painted on Leiden fire brigade tower 16 July 2019
The seventh Leiden wall formula has been finished. Over the last few weeks, mural artists Ben Walenkamp and Jan Willem Bruins have painted Christiaan ...