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Physicists find way to control fractures12 October 2016Rigid materials break more easily than floppy ones. This simple observation allows to predict and control the width of cracks. Theoretical understandi...
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Leiden honorary medal for LiS05 October 2016The Leidse Instrumentenmakers School (LiS) has received the Leiden erepenning—an honorary medal that is awarded each year during the celebration of th...
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Physics Nobel Prize to Former Lorentz Professor05 October 2016The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 goes to David Thouless, Michael Kosterlitz and Duncan Haldane for theoretical discoveries in the field of topological ...
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Bernard van Heck Wins Christiaan Huygens Prize 201604 October 2016Bernard van Heck has won the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 for his Leiden PhD research on electrical circuits for quantum computers. On behalf of the ...
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Complexity and Network Science at the Leiden Networks Day27 September 2016The first successful Leiden Networks day took place on September 23, 2016. Six world-renowned speakers (see photo) in the field of complexity and netw...
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A better view of synthetic fuel production20 September 2016Synthetic fuel is cleaner than natural oil, but its production process needs to be more efficient. Now for the first time, physicists have directly ob...
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Melting of frozen electrons visualized20 September 2016For the first time, physicists have visualized the ‘melting’ of electrons inside a special class of insulators. It allows electrons to move freely and...
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New force measured between proteins13 September 2016Proteins organize themselves around our body cells through a self-induced force. They indent the cell membrane, which makes them roll towards each oth...
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Light manipulated with large artificial atom29 August 2016Physicists have manipulated light with large artificial atoms, so-called quantum dots. Before, this has only been done so well with actual atoms. It i...
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Protector against air pollution is vulnerable to air26 August 2016Catalyst research aims to make gasoline less polluting. It turns out that during experiments it is actually necessary to protect catalysts from air it...
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'A garden on Mars' crowdfunding campaign starts today22 August 2016Today, 13 students at Leiden University have started a crowdfunding campaign to collect money for research into the possibilities of growing crops on ...
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Paradox in superconductivity at high temperature17 August 2016Nature publishes an article on a paradoxical discovery in superconductivity. Physicists are searching for superconductivity at high temperatures so th...
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Building with flexible blocks28 July 2016On an apparently normal cube a pattern of hollows and bulges appears when the cube is compressed. A method has been developed to design such three-dim...
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Origin of Neutrino Signal Remains a Mystery20 July 2016Physicists have studied the astrophysical neutrino signal as reported by the IceCube collaboration from a different angle with their ANTARES detector....
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Veni grants for 19 young Leiden researchers15 July 2016Nineteen researchers who have recently been awarded their PhD are to receive a Veni grant of up to 250,000 euros. Science funding agency NWO has awar...