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New technology could make hard-to-recycle plastics recyclable18 February 2025Cookware handles, electrical plugs, brake pads. Unlike other plastics, these ‘thermosets’ cannot simply be melted down and reshaped, making them diffi...
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NWO Open Competition grants for two research projectsResearch grants 17 February 2025Two research projects from Leiden University have been awarded funding within the NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition Domain Science program...
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From liquid to solid: revolutionary technique uncovers disease-related changes in tiny droplets within our cells13 February 2025Understanding the behaviour of tiny droplets in our cells could aid the search for new treatments. A team of Leiden researchers has developed a ground...
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‘I feel everyone’s love and passion for the Hortus’13 February 2025As the father of a family with four children, he already visited the Hortus regularly. Now Tom Schreuder also comes there for his work. Every day he t...
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Obesity and medication: when does bodyweight matter?13 February 2025How can we best treat infectious diseases in people with obesity? Hospital pharmacist and PhD researcher Koen van Rhee studied how obesity affects blo...
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‘World leader in star-planet interactions’ appointed professor13 February 2025Aline Vidotto has been appointed professor of Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics at the Observatory from 1 February. Vidotto has been with the univers...
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Special telescope measures neutrino with highest energy everPhysics 12 February 2025Even with state-of-the-art technology, it is almost impossible to see: a cosmic neutrino. Yet scientists have managed to image this particle with a de...
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Lianne Stevens wins The The European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2024 Best Paper Award12 February 2025At the EUFEPS Meeting in Vienna, Lianne Stevens and team received the EJPS – Best Paper Award 2024.
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Leiden University transfers unique collection of historical objects over to Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveScience and Heritage 11 February 2025Lenses from Christiaan Huygens’ telescope, instruments used to demonstrate Newton’s laws, and equipment that led to the discovery of superconductivity...
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First time in the cortège: ‘I wanted to be part of it’450 jaar 11 February 2025Is my cap on straight? Where in the cortège will I be walking? These are some of the questions asked by professors joining the Dies Natalis procession...
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From celestial bodies to plant bodies: exhibition brings together worlds of plants and planetsLeiden Observatory and Hortus botanicus 06 February 2025The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus...
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geologyExhibition at Oude UB 05 February 2025Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theo...
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From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grantImpact 03 February 2025
Various Leiden researchers have been awarded a European grant to explore the commercial or societal potential of previous research.
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From idea to impact: making innovations usable03 February 2025Innovations only achieve true success when people actually use them. PhD researcher Max van Haastrecht developed a cybersecurity app for small busines...
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Ancient magnetic fields: What do they tell us about the early years of the universe?NWO-subsidie 03 February 2025Are magnetic fields older than the first light? And how did they influence the development of our universe right after the Big Bang? Cosmologists from...