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eScience Grant for LION Neutrino Research 30 July 2015
The 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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Buckling on demand 09 June 2015
Researchers from Leiden University, the Netherlands, designed a novel metamaterial that buckles on demand. Small structural variations in the material...
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Physical reality of string theory demonstrated 29 June 2009
String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden theoretical physicists have now for ...
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Graphene is a thoroughbred that has to be tamed 17 March 2009
Electrons in graphene behave like light particles; they have no mass and can penetrate everything: very useful if you dream about nano-electronics. Bu...