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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles 30 April 2024
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky...
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Remarkable achievement: Leiden professor appointed AAAS Fellow 26 April 2024
Carlo Beenakker has been appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the organisation behind the journal Sci...
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The energy transition under the nanoscope: Gravitation funding for ANION project 11 April 2024
Bringing together chemists and physicists to thoroughly investigate how electrochemical processes work on the smallest scale. That is the goal of the ...
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The quantum computer: it doesn't exist yet, but still we understand increasingly better what problems it can solve 09 April 2024
How do we know what a quantum computer is good for when it hasn't been built yet? That's what PhD candidate Casper Gyurik investigated by combining tw...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers 25 March 2024
The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Jointly into the quantum future: ‘A crucial role for education and science communication’ 07 March 2024
The second quantum revolution is in full swing, bringing all kinds of new technologies to within reach, and offering many opportunities as well as cha...
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And the winner is… Results of the annual physics image competition 04 March 2024
Salt crystals, a nano-sized golf stick and molten glass. The LION Image Award competition of 2023 yielded a lot of beautiful images once again. But in...
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Sense Jan van der Molen new scientific director LION: ‘We strive for scientific excellence as well as a healthy work-life balance’ 29 February 2024
As a student he was mainly interested in history, but an inspiring teacher persuaded him to choose physics. On March 1, Sense Jan van der Molen will s...
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New professor of Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’ 26 February 2024
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Ga...
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Want to know more about quantum? These games make it fun 23 February 2024
Tic tac toe, but with quantum effects. That makes learning the principles of quantum technology a piece of cake. This is the aim of a new start-up fou...
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ERC Consolidator grant for Alessandra Silvestri: putting gravity to the test on cosmological scales 20 February 2024
Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 ...
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New professor Luca Giomi creates his own physics of living systems 19 February 2024
Swarms of drones, pedestrians or the cells in your body. Those are all examples of active matter: materials whose building blocks can move autonomousl...
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A first in the lab: a tiny network that is both strong and flexible 15 February 2024
Daniela Kraft's group has succeeded in creating a network of microparticles that is both strong and completely flexible. This may sound simple, yet th...
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Meet the professor: ‘Can my sister be prosecuted for stealing my eraser?’ 08 February 2024
On the university’s birthday, professors traditionally teach a class of 10 and 11-year-olds during Meet the Professor, and this year was no different....
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'Only when you give students freedom, exceptional results are possible' 30 January 2024
It doesn't happen every day that the research project of a first-year bachelor’s student results in a scientific publication. And not only that, but a...