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Dark matter with a hint of Leiden shines at Dublin gallery21 September 2020A glittering visualisation of dark matter by Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. The install...
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Leiden University and LUMC strengthen ties with Janssen pharmaceutical company17 September 2020Leiden University, the LUMC and Janssen have signed a partnership agreement stating that they will collaborate in different areas, including infectiou...
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Academic year Biology starts with 2020 pieces less litter07 September 2020The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the I...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?07 September 2020Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Six Months, Six Strings04 August 2020KM3NeT is a giant undersea neutrino detector, being deployed in the Mediterreanean Sea. Recently, it hit a six-fold milestone, celebrated with a fitti...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research15 July 2020Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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Student team invents Suckerspheres: sustainable alternative for microplastic14 July 2020A Leiden Groningen student team has reached the European finals of the BISC-E competition. In this annual competition students have to come up with a ...
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Leiden Observatory launches online summer programme for kids03 July 2020This summer, the Universe is closer than ever. With the online astronomy summer programme Space in Your Living Room!, the Leiden Observatory brings as...
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Europe to foster the Social-Economical Impact of Astronomy02 July 2020The European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (E-ROAD) has held its first conference session at the 2020 virtual Annual Meeting of the Eur...
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ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers residency at Leiden Observatory25 June 2020The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab is now offering artists working with Artificial Intelligence the chance for a residency at the Leiden Observa...
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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research22 June 2020
From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)...
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Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant10 June 2020Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use th...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication05 June 2020The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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Omid Karami wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award05 June 2020Plant scientist Omid Karami is the first winner of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award. The jury praises the outstanding quality of his scien...
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision01 June 2020Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from ...