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From stress to success: Vici grant for Dennis ClaessenWhy 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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Vici grants for three Leiden researchersThree Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeolog...
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LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environmentsUsing the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science DayWorking 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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Will wind turbines take the long track speedskaters to gold?Team Jumbo-Visma is going for gold at the World Championships this weekend in Salt Lake City. For this, they have worked on a new special training met...
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New insight into immune cell behaviour offers opportunities for cancer treatmentAn international group of scientists has discovered that certain cells of our immune system – the so-called T cells – communicate with each other and ...
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Helping low-income families in energy transitionIn the coming decades, more than 2 million social housing units in the Netherlands will receive an upgrade in insulation and heating, in order to inc...
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CML Stans Prize 2019CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best PhD paper, best student thesis and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominate...
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-Earth objectsThree Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their res...
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Less power-consuming graphics on your phoneNetwork-on-Chips are hardware that are used to communicate between different parts of a microchip. They have been around for over twenty years, but th...
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‘Don’t ever discriminate yourself by any gender-related label’Iranian 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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Improving football skills using data-miningUsing positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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A real professor in the classroomA school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...