News
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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....
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Opening Event Three New Leiden Wall Formulas 16 November 2017
The inner city of Leiden has gained three new wall formulas. On Wednesday 22 November at 15:30 in the Klein Auditorium, alderman Robert Strijk will re...
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Sander Blok wins LION Image Award 2017 10 November 2017
Sander Blok has won the third edition of the annual LION Image Award. He created a colorful image of gold nanoparticles with a low-energy electron mic...
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics Ladies Day 08 November 2017
On Thursday 9 November, Leiden University organized its annual Physics Ladies Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put th...
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Black holes with ‘dreadlocks’ offer insight into quantum matter 06 November 2017
Physicists understand little about quantum matter, which is a building block of future quantum computers. Theorists have now discovered that black hol...
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Elastic Leidenfrost Effect on cover of Nature Physics 02 November 2017
First author Scott Waitukaitis and principal investigator Martin van Hecke have made the cover of Nature Physics with their publication on a newly dis...
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Dutch Theoretical Physics reviewed as excellent 27 October 2017
The Dutch Research School for Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) has received excellent ratings from an independent international committee. The DRSTP is a s...
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Controlling active matter with curvature 23 October 2017
Nematic liquid crystals form the key ingredients of most tv screens. The active version of these complex fluids forms a useful model for physicists to...
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Researchers reveal how stem cells make decisions 23 October 2017
Embryonic stem cells have the remarkable ability to develop into any type of cell. On their way to become for example a liver or a heart cell, they mu...
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Milestone for Neutrino Detector alongside French Riviera 18 October 2017
The KM3NeT neutrino detector celebrates the installation of the first string of detectors in the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast. It will measu...
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Physics Nobel Prize for former Leiden Lorentz Professor 05 October 2017
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their work on the measurement of gravitational waves...
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3rd annual LION Image Award 28 September 2017
We are happy to announce the 3rd annual LION Image Award!
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'Bigger is different' - the unusual physics of mechanical metamaterials 25 September 2017
Mechanical metamaterials have been found to display surprising features, on top of their unusual properties such as shape morphing and programmability...
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Michel Orrit receives Spinoza Prize in Royal Theatre 13 September 2017
On September 12, Michel Orrit received his Spinoza prize in the Royal Theatre in The Hague from OCW Secretary of State Sander Dekker. With the award c...
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Andrew Webb receives 2017 Simon Stevin Master Prize 08 September 2017
Andrew Webb, Professor of MRI Physics at LUMC and teacher at the Physics education at Leiden University, has been awarded the 2017 NWO Simon Stevin Ma...