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Tackling local societal challenges through science28 February 2019Bringing science, technology and innovation to places that normally do not have access to these areas of knowledge. This is the goal of the first Open...
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Leiden University Day in China26 February 2019A Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
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Media about hundreds of thousands of unknown galaxies20 February 2019An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries has published hundreds of thousands of unknown galaxies. The data are part of a ...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’08 February 2019His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Table salt discovered around a young star07 February 2019New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years from Earth in the disk surrounding a massive ...
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Portrait of former DG, Tim de Zeeuw, unveiled06 February 2019A portrait of Tim de Zeeuw was unveiled and added to the gallery of former ESO Directors General at ESO HQ, on Monday 21 January. The portrait was unv...
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Memorial ceremony of Maolin Zhang25 January 2019A memorial of Maolin’s life is planned on Wednesday the 30th of January at the Academy Building in the center of Leiden.
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In memoriam: Maolin Zhang19 January 2019
We are grief-stricken that our PhD student Maolin Zhang passed away during the early morning of January 17th 2019. He died during a terrible fire that...
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Leiden starts exchange with Poland17 January 2019Leiden University has started a collaboration with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. The project includes the exchange of students and sta...
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Cucurachi, Behrens and Matthee are teacher, discoverer, and PhD candidate of 201808 January 2019Environmental scientists Stefano Cucurachi and Paul Behrens and astronomer Jorryt Matthee have received prizes during the New Year's reception of the ...
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Young stars in the Orion Nebula are practicing birth control07 January 2019Astronomers from Leiden University have discovered that the star wind from a newborn star in the Orion Nebula prevents more stars from forming in the ...
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Star mapper Anthony Brown in Nature's 1019 December 2018Leiden astronomer Anthony Brown is part of Nature’s 10: the ten people who mattered in science in 2018, according to the leading science journal. Work...
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MASCARA stations hunt for exoplanets orbiting bright stars13 December 2018For a number of years, two ‘boxes’ in the Canary Islands and Chile have been scouring the skies for exoplanets that orbit bright stars. PhD candidate ...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 201813 December 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Strong impetus for South Holland space research10 December 2018The SRON space research institute, Leiden University and the TU Delft are appointing six researchers to jointly carry out space research. The researc...