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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science DayWorking on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Will wind turbines take the long track speedskaters to gold?Team Jumbo-Visma is going for gold at the World Championships this weekend in Salt Lake City. For this, they have worked on a new special training met...
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Helping low-income families in energy transitionIn the coming decades, more than 2 million social housing units in the Netherlands will receive an upgrade in insulation and heating, in order to inc...
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Less power-consuming graphics on your phoneNetwork-on-Chips are hardware that are used to communicate between different parts of a microchip. They have been around for over twenty years, but th...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicinesGerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based researchA mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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Sign language processing needs interdisciplinary approachComputer scientist Tessa Verhoef received a Best Paper Award during the ‘ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility’. The paper emphasise...
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Digital Transformation: how do children perceive computer science?Contribute to shaping the content and methods of future computer science education. That is what researchers hope to achieve with the Digital Transfor...
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Measuring sulfur with satellitesSeagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Joost Batenburg new professor for SAILSSAILS started the new year with a new professor. Joost Batenburg will join the SAILS team with his expertise in Imaging and Visualisation. This makes ...
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NWO grant for optimal design of complex and distributed cyber-physical systemsNWO awarded a grant for novel research on Complex and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The grant will fund a four-year research project in wh...
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Leiden University as source of inspiration for new Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data ScienceAcross Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka there is an urgent need for appropriate educational programmes that develop skills in data science and artifi...