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eScience Grant for LION Neutrino Research 30 July 2015The Netherlands eScience Center has announced to fund a new Path-Finding Project led by Dr. Dorothea Samtleben from the Leiden Institute of Physics (L...
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Graphene supercurrents go ballistic 28 July 2015Scientists at TU Delft and Leiden University have observed supercurrents in graphene that bounce back and forth between the edges of the graphene with...
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‘The first quantum computer will fill a sports hall’ 27 July 2015The worldwide race to the quantum computer is in full swing. This computer can bring about a breakthrough in discovering medicines and new materials. ...
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Metamaterial undermines 250-year-old construction principles 22 July 2015Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF, Leiden University and Harvard University made a rubber beam that bends faster when subjected to less pressure. T...
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New material challenges 250 year old building principles 22 July 2015
Researchers at FOM-institute AMOLF and the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) have developed a rubber rod with strange bending behaviours. Beyond a ce...
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Buckling on demand 09 June 2015Researchers from Leiden University, the Netherlands, designed a novel metamaterial that buckles on demand. Small structural variations in the material...
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A new building block for the quantum computer 09 June 2015The race to build the first quantum computer is still ongoing, but Morten Bakker has made big step forward in that process with qubits. A qubit is a u...
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Voltage at nanoscale: Leiden researchers win NeVac prize 16 April 2015Jaap Kautz and Johannes Jobst have won the NeVac prize for developing a completely new method for studying electrical conductivity. The article they a...
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Jamming the result of special self-organisation 09 April 2015Materials that are built up from individual granules exhibit a special phenomenon called ‘jamming’. With research into the nature of this phenomenon, ...
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PhD student Bernard van Heck to travel to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 12 March 2015
Leiden physicist Bernard van Heck is one of the seven young Dutch scientists who will be travelling to the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Promisi...
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‘Since coming to Leiden, I’ve never worried that something might be too difficult to do’ 03 March 2015The Italian physicist Andrea Morello is one of the pioneers of the quantum revolution. He is currently doing research at the University of New South W...
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Strings attached to future high-temperature superconductivity 12 February 2015The behaviour of strongly correlated electron systems, such as high-temperature superconductors, defies explanation in the language of ordinary quantu...
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Dirk Bouwmeester and Corinne Hofman receive NWO Spinoza Prize 09 September 2014On 9 September, in the presence of King Willem Alexander, Secretary of State Sander Dekker presented the Spinoza Prize to four researchers, including ...
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Movements of steroid receptors inside the cell nucleus unraveled 01 April 2014
Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques have revealed how steroid receptors move inside the nucleus. The results were published by a team from Lei...
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New zebrafish study to understand human cancer 06 October 2012Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Shuning He and colleagues from IBL, LION and LACDR reported on a new zebrafish study to understand micrometastasis of human cancer...