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Interview with Alexandre MorinAlexandre Morin is a new associate professor at LION, who will be researching active matter.
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Six Months, Six StringsKM3NeT is a giant undersea neutrino detector, being deployed in the Mediterreanean Sea. Recently, it hit a six-fold milestone, celebrated with a fitti...
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How microscopic scallops wanderAll microscopic objects, from enzymes to paint particles, are jittering constantly, bombarded by solvent particles: this is called Brownian motion. Ho...
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Subodh Patil researches gravitational waves in the universeVideo interview with Subodh Patil, the new assistant professor in Theoretical Cosmology, about the gravitational waves, hidden universes, music, and w...
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Leiden Lockdown Lab LoreLeiden Lockdown Lab Lore is a series of short youtube videos aimed at keeping physicists lab instincts alive during the lockdown. This time, we have a...
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Finding the cause of memory lossMemory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical sci...
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Probing the secret forces of pericytesLeiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in t...
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In the media: Daniela Kraft in Academic Stories about nanoparticle robotsDaniela Kraft speaks to Academic Stories about self-assembling soft matter, nanorobots, the importance of female rodels in science, and the unique fre...
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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistryShell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex m...
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy FundThe projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Discoverer of the Year Irene Battisti wants to see the invisibleIrene Battisti is the discoverer of the year 2019. The physicist won the C.J. Kok Public Award for her research into microscopy and superconductors.
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Anne Meeussen wins Young Speakers' ContestAnne Meeussen is the winner of the Fysica 2020 Young Speakers' Contest. She was elected by the online attendants after delivering a talk about metamat...
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LION in lockdownThe 'Intelligent Lockdown' has lasted over a month now, which makes experimental physics research hard to do, if not downright impossible. Even so, wo...
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Making cells ultra-heavyThe life of a fibroblast is heavy, but PhD student Julia Eckert makes it 19.5 times heavier, using the Large Diameter Centrifuge at the ESTEC space re...