Current means of fighting bacteria are no longer as good as they used to be because of antibiotic resistance. These days, people are dying from bacter...
An international team led by Leiden astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly c...
Learning how computers can process and describe images just like human beings do. It is one of the key elements of the research of Michael Lew, who se...
Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
The Phase 3 clinical trial results of the promising Covid-19 vaccine of Johnson & Johnson are expected this month. The Dutch electron microscopy facil...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration receives the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award. In April 2019, the EHT team pres...
Leiden University is currently working on the new Gorlaeus Building, a sustainable modern building for the Faculty of Science. To make room for the ph...
The French Astronomical Society SAF (Société Astronomique de France) has awarded its international astronomy prize, the Jules Janssen Prize, to Leiden...
In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for g...
On January 5, Rosa Winter will obtain her doctorate in arithmetic geometry. She researched solutions of equations that define so-called ‘del Pezzo sur...
Leiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum ...
A Dutch collaboration, including the SURF Open Innovation Lab and Leiden Observatory, has won Hyperion Research's HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Thi...
The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
A festival that combines music and science, and a digital 'time machine' for science history: four Leiden projects that focus on science communication...
At the Faculty of Science, forty per cent of the employees are of a non-Dutch nationality. Amongst PhDs that is even sixty per cent. How are they doin...
