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Collaboration group Aarts and Intel 01 February 2018
Physics professor Jan Aarts starts a collaboration with chip manufacturer Intel to perform fundamental research in low-power, cryogenic computing.
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NWO ECHO grant for research on fickle RNA production 31 January 2018
Genes are active sometimes, and other times they remain dormant for a while. Leiden physicist John van Noort receives an NWO ECHO grant to find out ho...
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Use the new audio tour to stroll past the Leiden wall formulas 30 January 2018
From now on, you can go for a walk through Leiden’s scientific history and at the same time across the historic city center itself. Master students Lo...
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Visualising the nanoworld 24 January 2018
Visualising cell proteins without invasive techniques is possible with the help of fluorescence. During a lecture of the Natuurwetenschappelijk Gezels...
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Hendrik Casimir Prize 2017 awarded to Nashwan Sabti and Nikolas Kavadias 10 January 2018
At the LION/Sterrewacht new year’s reception, Scientific Director of Casimir Tjerk Oosterkamp handed out the 2017 Hendrik Casimir Prize to physics stu...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Orrit receives NWO-TTW Open Technology Programme grant 20 December 2017
Michel Orrit has received an NWO-TTW Open Technology Programme grant. He will use it to image single molecules without the need for fluorescence.
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Daniela Kraft wins Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year Award 20 December 2017
The editors of Biophysical Journal have selected a publication from Daniela Kraft’s group as the Paper of the Year 2017. The award recognizes an outst...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Scott Waitukaitus has been nominated by LION to be Discoverer of the Year 2017. Cast your vote now!
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Leiden has highest percentage female first year students Physics & Astronomy 14 December 2017
The bachelor education programmes of Physics and Astronomy in Leiden combined have the highest percentage female first year students in The Netherland...
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Physics Bachelor Project fair 13 December 2017
On Wednesday December 13, the Physics institute hosts its first Bachelor Project fair. Principal Investigators of many research groups at LION give po...
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New memory developed for superconducting computer 13 December 2017
If computers work on superconducting current, they won’t consume any energy. Leiden physicists have now gained control over a new type of superconduct...
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Humidity switches molecular diode off and on 04 December 2017
An international group of scientists, led by Leiden physicist Sense Jan van der Molen, has developed the first switchable molecular diode. You can tur...
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Biophysicists unravel exact folding of a single gene 01 December 2017
The way genes are folded determines their activity in our body. Leiden biophysicists are now the first to unravel this structure molecule-by-molecule....