News
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Probing the secret forces of pericytes 28 May 2020
Leiden 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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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistry 26 May 2020
Shell 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 Fund 19 May 2020
The 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 invisible 07 May 2020
Irene 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' Contest 17 April 2020
Anne 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 lockdown 14 April 2020
The '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-heavy 14 April 2020
The 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...
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order 30 March 2020
A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelli...
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Two-photon microscope captures plant cells 09 March 2020
Leiden physicists are helping Wageningen plant researchers to study unpredictable plant embryos. For this, they are using a novel two-photon fluoresce...
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Understanding metastasis: Science Groot grant for Erik Danen 05 March 2020
A team led by Erik Danen from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has received a 3 million euros NWO Science Groot grant to unravel the first...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists 24 February 2020
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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1.3 million euros to catch quantum collapse 24 February 2020
Leiden physicists Tjerk Oosterkamp and Dirk Bouwmeester have received a 1.3 million euro Science-Groot grant from NWO to catch a mystery at the core o...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day 14 February 2020
Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Microswimmers swim faster over slippery surfaces 28 January 2020
Tiny self-propelling spheres, measuring only micrometers, move faster over a hydrophobic silicone surface than they do over hydrophilic glass. 'Almost...
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The peculiar effect of a small error 27 January 2020
Metamaterials have properties that depend on their shape and architecture. Researchers at AMOLF, Leiden University and Tel Aviv University have found ...