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A computer made of floppy rubber 13 December 2021
A piece of corrugated rubber can function as a simple computer, displaying memory and displaying the ability to count to two. Leiden physicists descri...
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Anne Meeussen wins Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis prize 2021 12 November 2021
Anne Meeussen, who defended her PhD thesis on programmable materials in May 2021 earning cum laude honours, won the second Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa prize...
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Martin van Hecke elected APS fellow 12 October 2021
Metamaterials researcher Martin van Hecke has been elected American Physical Society (APS) fellow, an honour exclusive to only half a percent of the s...
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Superselective bonds light up 02 September 2021
Rather than one key and one strong lock, biology often uses tens or hundreds of weaker links to bind parts together, such as cells membranes. This all...
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Louise Jawerth gets vidi for understanding pesky protein fibers 14 July 2021
Mysterious protein fibers show up in the brain cells of people suffering from Alzheimer’s' disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Leiden physi...
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Discovering the physics of banks, the economy and financial crisis 23 June 2021
Physicist Diego Garlaschelli co-authored an extensive review in the journal Nature Reviews Physics. Surprisingly, the subject wasn't physics at all, b...
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Deciphering the link between Iron and Brain Disease 30 April 2021
Aceruloplasminemia is a very rare, genetic disease accompagnied with iron accumulation that causes movement disorder and brain damage at early age.
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ERC grant for calculating materials 22 April 2021
Physicist Martin van Hecke receives a 2.5 million euro ERC research grant for research into information processing materials. Starting out with a piec...
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The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets 21 January 2021
A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories coul...
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Leiden physicists detect single nanoparticles in motion 23 November 2020
It's pretty hard to spot a single 5 nanometer particle. Leiden physicists pulled it off by turning a 120 nm gold rod into a detector.
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Vidi research grant for physicist Daniela Kraft 04 November 2020
The image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft's research group has quite a ...
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3D printed microboat 21 October 2020
From prow to stern, this little boat measures 30 micrometers, about a third of the thickness of a hair. It has been 3D-printed by Leiden physicists Ra...
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Interview with Alexandre Morin 17 September 2020
Alexandre Morin is a new associate professor at LION, who will be researching active matter.
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How microscopic scallops wander 26 July 2020
All microscopic objects, from enzymes to paint particles, are jittering constantly, bombarded by solvent particles: this is called Brownian motion. Ho...
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Finding the cause of memory loss 02 June 2020
Memory loss and confusion are signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Physicists Serge Rombouts and Martina Huber have developed new methods to help medical sci...