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Aarts and Beenakker elected APS FellowPhysicists Carlo Beenakker and Jan Aarts have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. Carlo Beenakker: 'People acknowledge your contrib...
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Superconductivity with a twist explainedLeiden physicists and international colleagues from Geneva and Barcelona have confirmed the mechanism that makes magic-angle graphene superconducting....
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Steering the immune system with liposomesLiposomes – nano-sized spheres composed of fatty molecules – are very promising for vaccination. Bio-pharmaceutical scientist Naomi Benne discovered t...
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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizonAt the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Hiroshima Peace Tree comes to BlekersparkOn 23 September, the Leiden alderman for the Management of Public Space was presented with a Ginkgo Biloba in the Blekerspark. This special 'Peace Tre...
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Renewed online atlas provides better insight into pesticides in surface watersOn 24 September the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) in Leiden will launch the new version of the Pesticides Atlas in cooperation with Rijksw...
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New research shows the limitations of coordination in chemistryA common assumption in chemistry is that the coordination number of a catalyst's surface determines the reactivity of the reaction it catalyses. Strik...
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Leiden researchers depict the formation of galaxiesAn international team of astronomers, with researchers at Leiden Observatory playing a leading role, has mapped the fuel for galaxy formation in the i...
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examplesHow designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Nathaniel Martin in podcast about antimicrobial resistanceProfessor Biological chemistry Nathaniel Martin from the Institute of Biology Leiden is interviewed by the Netherlands Innovation Network on innovativ...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a successAfter a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...
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Dark matter with a hint of Leiden shines at Dublin galleryA 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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An algorithm for problem solving in cars and the human brainImagine having a car accident in a parking lot, your car has some small damage and you have to get it fixed. What if your car could tell you which par...
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Difference in microbiota between organic and conventional dairy farmsBacteria and fungi on organic dairy farms are significantly different from those on conventional farms. That was discovered by postdoc researcher Sofi...
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Interview with Alexandre MorinAlexandre Morin is a new associate professor at LION, who will be researching active matter.