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How the world can achieve climate goals with clean hydrogen production 22 February 2024
Hydrogen can help to solve the climate problem. At least, if we start producing it in the right, clean way. Leiden researchers mapped out the global e...
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ERC Consolidator grant for Alessandra Silvestri: putting gravity to the test on cosmological scales 20 February 2024
Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 ...
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Embryos of the bitterling perform a somersault. This teaches us something new about natural selection 20 February 2024
Even embryos can become embroiled in an evolutionary arms race with another species. Leiden biologists demonstrate this with larvae of the rosy bitter...
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Together towards a Circular System: Leiden contributes to Growing with Green Steel 19 February 2024
A complete transformation of the steel cycle in the Netherlands with the ultimate goal of a CO2 neutral steel sector by 2050. For this purpose, the Gr...
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New professor Luca Giomi creates his own physics of living systems 19 February 2024
Swarms of drones, pedestrians or the cells in your body. Those are all examples of active matter: materials whose building blocks can move autonomousl...
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Jos Raaijmakers new member KHMW: ‘Build a bridge between science and society’ 19 February 2024
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed Jos Raaijmakers, professor of Microbial Interactions and diversity, as a new...
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A first in the lab: a tiny network that is both strong and flexible 15 February 2024
Daniela Kraft's group has succeeded in creating a network of microparticles that is both strong and completely flexible. This may sound simple, yet th...
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With these small adjustments we can reduce nitrogen loss in peat meadows 09 February 2024
Relatively simple adjustments can reduce nitrogen losses on dairy farms in peatland areas. That’s the conclusion of the PhD research by by Leiden envi...
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How oak seedlings teach us more on dune restoration 08 February 2024
What is the best way to restore dune ecosystems? The project TERRA-Dunes researches the role of soil microbes in the development of natural dune areas...
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Plant-based diet can help unlock technology to harness huge CO2 removal 07 February 2024
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a promising method for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and simultaneously gener...
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Your old smartphone is indispensable for the energy transition 06 February 2024
By 2050, we can obtain 40 per cent of our demand for scarce earth metals from old smartphones, batteries, and wind turbines. This is crucial because o...
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How fungi are helping us be more sustainable 05 February 2024
Fungi don’t just grow as mould on your bread but can also be used to produce building materials, mushroom leather and meat substitutes. Professor of F...
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Master’s student fundraising for research into lost human sense 02 February 2024
Can humans sense where north is, using what is known as magnetoreception? This question had master’s student Björn Keyser (Media Technology) so intrig...
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Best poster award of the 5th QSPainRelief General Assembly meeting 31 January 2024
PhD candidate Divakar Budda (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) and Solen Gousset (UCLouvain) shared were the shared winners of the best p...
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Towards translation of CNS pharmacokinetics from mice to men 31 January 2024
PhD candidates Mohammed Saleh and Berfin Gülave (Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy) published their research paper on “Using the LeiCNS-PK...