Theoretical physicists research a special class of particles; Weyl fermions. They have found them to exhibit paradoxical behavior, in contradiction to...

Theoretical physicist Helmut Schiessel receives an NWO Projectruimte grant of 390,000 euro. He will use this budget to hire a postdoc and a PhD studen...

The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...

The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...

In the hunt for new particles, physicists look at ever higher energy particle collisions, moving the energy frontier. Some particles however are elusi...

Leiden physicists exploit self-assembly of small particles to someday create functional structures such as micro-robots from the bottom up. They have ...

Molecules are extremely hard to see in visible light, especially without using fluorescence. Leiden physicists have now made their optical technique s...

Nanoparticles are widely used, but their effect on the environment is unclear because they are hard to track. Leiden physicists have developed a new m...

The European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the Gero Thomas Commemorative Medal 2017 to Jo Hermans, emeritus Professor in Physics. He wins the awa...

Marileen Dogterom, Professor bionanoscience in Delft and Professor molecular physics in Leiden, will take a seat at the KNAW board as of June 1st. She...

This weeks marks the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council. For the past decade, the council has contributed to many scientific projects a...

Exactly 138 years ago, Albert Einstein came into this world to forever change our understanding of it. The Leiden physics institute, where he frequent...

‘It has never been so easy to set up a Studium Generale series.’ With these words Tilman Grünewald thanked speaker Frank den Hollander, who kicked off...

Scientists have developed a material that breaks one of the fundamental principles governing many physical systems. Ordinary materials transmit extern...

At the LION/Sterrewacht new year’s reception, Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp handed out the 2016 Hendrik Casimir Prize to physics students Andrea Peña (Leiden...