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Go ahead for Dark Matter experiment 31 March 2021
CERN has approved the construction and operation of SND@LHC, a neutrino detector at the Large Hadron Collider. It's a precursor for SHiP, a detector m...
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How deep is a mirror? 18 March 2021
Light reflects from a mirror, but where exactly does this reflection happen? Well, it depends, Martin van Exter and Corné Koks discovered. Their preci...
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Two Marie Curie Grants for Leiden theorists 02 March 2021
Theoretical physicists Kevin Grosvenor and Sam Young have won Marie Curie grants for research projects at LION/Lorentz Institute.
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The hunt for the quantum collapse 24 February 2021
The most famous cat in science is Schrödinger's cat, the quantum mechanical mammal, which can exist in a superposition, a state that is alive as well ...
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Light particles lined up one after the other 22 January 2021
In Leiden, light particles march into Wolfgang Löffler’s experiments one by one. His research focuses on acquiring the fundamental knowledge needed to...
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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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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen 12 January 2021
To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of t...
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computing 22 December 2020
Leiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum ...
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New ONEM Microscope to combine best of two worlds 15 December 2020
Leiden physicists have been awarded 1.5 million euros for developing a hybrid microscope that provided nanometer-resolution. 'The idea is to combine t...
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First NWO Communication Award for Leiden Wall Formula project 01 December 2020
Sense Jan van der Molen and Ivo van Vulpen have been awarded the first ENW Communication Award by funding agency NWO for their Wall Formula project. T...
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Leiden Physicists invent printable superconducting devices 27 November 2020
Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Le...
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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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Gravitational Lenses measure Universe Expansion 16 November 2020
It's one of the big cosmology debates: the universe is expanding, but how fast exactly? Two available measurements yield different results. Leiden phy...
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Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize. 13 November 2020
The winner of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize 2020 is Koen Bastiaans. He carried out his PhD research in the group of Milan Allan an...
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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 ...