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New vegetation models can improve climate change predictions 12 May 2020
A new study in Nature Plants has explored the most important organising principles that control vegetation behaviour. The insights from this study can...
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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 50 10 March 2020
On International Women’s Day 2020, the first edition of the Leiden Top 50 was revealed, a list of 50 women who made a difference in Leiden in 2019. Am...
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CML Stans Prize 2019 12 February 2020
CML 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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From camel keeper to doctor 13 January 2020
Two terrifying yellow eyes stared at eleven-year-old Francis Lesilau. In the evening light they changed colour: green, amber, back to yellow... The li...
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This is how virtual reality brings education to the next level 23 December 2019
Early December, lecturer Joris Timmermans gave the first virtual reality lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences. Together with the Centre ...
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Together, plants and fungi could slow down climate change 07 November 2019
A special relationship between plants and fungi, which plays an important role in carbon storage in soil, has the potential to slow down climate chang...
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive 24 October 2019
Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmenta...
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These animal species are dear to us, but can we protect them? 11 October 2019
Animal species that are dear to us in the Netherlands often spend a large part or all of their lifecycle in other parts of the world. But their habita...
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'Lower emissions and successful farming can go hand in hand' 05 September 2019
Circular agriculture and more nature are important to reduce harmful emissions and to give a new impetus to biodiversity. But is that compatible with ...
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials 21 June 2019
The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the...
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10 million for research into disease transmission by mosquitoes 12 June 2019
How can the Netherlands be better prepared for infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded almost 9 mi...
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Dutch National Research Agenda supports five ‘Leiden’ public-private projects 12 June 2019
The Dutch National Research Agenda announced today that it will provide 17 research projects with a total of 61 million euros in funding. Researchers ...
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Photo reportage on Leiden lion research in national newspaper 22 May 2019
Photographer Taco van der Eb accompanied Kenyan and Leiden researchers and students on a trip to Lake Nakuru National Park to record their conservatio...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis 20 May 2019
It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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Large-scale European project identifies risks of nanoparticles 23 April 2019
The large-scale project NanoInformatics will assess the risks associated with nanoparticles. The project will be funded by the EU with 6.8 million eur...