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Can humans observe a single particle of light? (And what does that say about our brain?)11 July 2024Hoping to learn something about the human brain, Leiden researchers are creating a setup to shoot single photons, particles of light, into someone’s e...
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Robert Smit receives his PhD with distinction. ‘I am happy to be back in the lab’04 July 2024An all-optical transistor, a molecule-sized sensor and a new kind of single-photon source for quantum communication. All dreamed applications of funda...
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Circular fuel: researchers and technicians work hand in hand on tomorrow’s solutions24 June 2024From a meaningless block of plastic to an advanced component that contributes to the energy transition. The technicians and scientists of our faculty ...
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‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication07 June 2024‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Ph...
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NWO Summit Grant to investigate fundamental quantum limits24 May 2024A consortium including Leiden physicists Carlo Beenakker and Bas Hensen receives an NWO Summit Grant of 35 million euros over the course of ten years....
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Computing with rubber22 May 2024Without electronics carrying out computational tasks our daily lives would look very different. Devices such as elevators, vending machines, turnstile...
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles30 April 2024After 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 Fellow26 April 2024Carlo 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 project11 April 2024Bringing 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 solve09 April 2024How 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 researchers25 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 2024The 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 competition04 March 2024Salt 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 2024As 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 2024The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Ga...