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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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Keep busy with these astronomy activities you can do from home02 April 2020Stuck at home with little to do? Don’t worry, because we have the perfect space related activities you can do from home, alone or with your family, in...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Enjoy the photo exhibition in the Old Observatory from home19 March 2020Two radio telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia have brought together a few remarkable people. A new photo exhibition in the Old Observatory visitor...
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Here is how you can help astronomers to identify black holes17 March 2020Scientists are asking your help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever ...
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Two-photon microscope captures plant cells09 March 2020Leiden physicists are helping Wageningen plant researchers to study unpredictable plant embryos. For this, they are using a novel two-photon fluoresce...
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career03 March 2020Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain28 February 2020The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualise dark matter25 February 2020How can you see something that’s invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the Universe and teach us more abou...
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Lively debate at public symposium on sustainability21 February 2020A public symposium was held at Leiden University on 20 February on a hot topic: renewable energy. This is the second time in a year that the Universit...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research21 February 2020Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...
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From stress to success: Vici grant for Dennis Claessen20 February 2020Why do some bacteria lose their protective cell wall under the influence of stress? Microbiologist Dennis Claessen of the Institute of Biology Leiden ...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day14 February 2020Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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‘Don’t ever discriminate yourself by any gender-related label’11 February 2020Iranian molecular plant biologist Salma Balazadeh started her career in Germany. Now she sets up a research group in Leiden to study stress in plants ...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’07 February 2020From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...