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Happy anniversary, liquid helium 10 July 2019
111 years ago, Heike Kamerlingh Onnis liquified helium for the first time, a tour the force that netted him the Nobel prize. It took a laboratory of a...
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Quantum particles and bacteria without cell walls: KLEIN grant for Beenakker and Claessen 08 July 2019
Are Weyl particles the ideal conductors? Do cells without a cell wall play a role in chronic Tuberculosis infections? Carlo Beenakker and Dennis Claes...
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Leiden Science Run will run for endangered scientists 08 July 2019
The Leiden Science Run 2019 is dedicated to Scholars at Risk, a programme of the UAF, an organisation for refugee students. This programme offers enda...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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Two Leiden astronomers awarded with prestigious IAU PhD Prize 02 July 2019
Two Leiden astronomers will receive the prestigious IAU PhD Prize. Both Jorryt Mathee and Niels Ligterink of the Leiden Observatory won a prize. Scien...
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Data Science certificates awarded to employees of Ministry IenW 26 June 2019
On Monday, June 24th, 24 employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) received their certificates for completing Data Scien...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials 21 June 2019
The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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SUNRISE initiative’s first stakeholder meeting 21 June 2019
Over 170 SUNRISE’s stakeholders gathered on June 17-18 at the Academy Palace of Brussels, in connection with the EU Sustainable Energy Week, as one o...
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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centre 19 June 2019
He is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future 19 June 2019
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...
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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science 17 June 2019
Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Leiden physics acquires original Horndeski 14 June 2019
The Leiden physics institute LION has bought a painting by the American physicist Gregory Horndeski, who wrote a brilliant article about gravity in 19...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projects 12 June 2019
The Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...
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Magic moments at Museum Night 20 May 2019
Leiden University opened its doors on Leiden Museum Night, with a whole host of things to see and do at the Academy Building, Hortus botanicus and Old...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis 20 May 2019
It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...