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'Here I can grow in both science and art' 08 June 2023A passion for video games, visuals and science: it almost seems impossible to bring all of this together. Yet, scientific animator Vera Williams found...
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'Maths is just plain fun' 06 June 2023Gianne Derks is the MI’s new scientific director from 1 May. She has worked abroad longer than in the Netherlands and, after more than 27 years in Sur...
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National flower: The daisy is everywhere thanks to men with mowers 06 June 2023The daisy has been crowned the Netherlands’ national flower. This was revealed on Sunday in the National Flower vote on the Vroege Vogels radio show. ...
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer 06 June 2023Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countr...
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Can we make bioplastics with artificial photosynthesis? 05 June 2023Mimicking photosynthesis to produce bioplastics sustainably and efficiently. Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Leiden Ins...
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Take a sneak peek at the new Gorlaeus building 05 June 2023Want to see how the most important building on our Science Campus at Leiden Bio Science Park is taking shape? Come and find out on Construction Day (D...
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What tiny isotopes reveal about planets outside our solar system 01 June 2023Planets existing in other solar systems contain invaluable information about the origin of planets and life. PhD candidate Yapeng Zhang has studied th...
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How to make cryptographic techniques more efficient? 01 June 2023Sharing scientific data, transferring money, or sending other sensitive information online: with cryptography, applications make sure your data does n...
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Applications that never crash again 31 May 2023Doing your taxes, Netflixing or driving a car: more and more daily activities are supported by computer applications. It is challenging and expensive ...
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners 30 May 2023X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as ...
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A quirky block of rubber as a calculator 30 May 2023PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called...
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Music sensitivity parrots put to the test 30 May 2023A meeting place for singing parrots. That is one of the ambitions of Michelle Spierings’ new project. With her awarded NWO XS grant, she wants to test...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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‘I use a statistical analysis to estimate my travel time by bike’ 26 May 2023Why use Google Maps when you can also calculate your bike route based on your own data. Statistician and cyclist Alexander Dürre sees statistics in ev...
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Accessibility buildings Faculty of Science 24 May 2023
All buildings are open again from Thursday 25 May.