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Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes 29 August 2018
What is dark matter? How do supermassive black holes form? ‘Primordial’ black holes might hold the answer to these long-standing questions. Leiden and...
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Surprising similarity between stripy black holes and high-temperature superconductors 23 July 2018
We don’t understand how some materials become superconducting at relatively high temperatures. Leiden physicists have now found a surprising connectio...
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First discovery of high-energy neutrino source 12 July 2018
For the first time, scientists have traced back a high-energy neutrino to its source in space. It was produced by a so-called blazar—a supermassive bl...
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NWO Projectruimte for physicists Schalm and Zaanen 16 March 2018
NWO has awarded a €392k Projectruimte grant to physicists Koenraad Schalm and Jan Zaanen to study ‘strange metals’. These materials are alleged to fol...
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Youtube star Ed Copeland gives Colloquium Ehrenfestii 06 February 2018
On Wednesday February 7th, Professor Ed Copeland from the University of Nottingham will give the Colloquium Ehrenfestii.
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Hendrik Casimir Prize 2017 awarded to Nashwan Sabti and Nikolas Kavadias 10 January 2018
At the LION/Sterrewacht new year’s reception, Scientific Director of Casimir Tjerk Oosterkamp handed out the 2017 Hendrik Casimir Prize to physics stu...
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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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Over 200 spectators Andrei Linde in Leidse Schouwburg 29 June 2017
As part of his guest professorship in Leiden, famous theoretical physicist Prof. Andrei Linde (Stanford University) gave a public lecture on June 23 a...
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Meet this year's Lorentz Professor Renata Kallosh: 'Lorentz is my hero in physics' 08 June 2017
Professor Renata Kallosh (Stanford University), one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, will be this summer’s Lorentz Professor at the Leid...
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Crossing the Intensity Frontier 01 May 2017
In the hunt for new particles, physicists look at ever higher energy particle collisions, moving the energy frontier. Some particles however are elusi...
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New flowchart to eliminate Universe models 08 November 2016
Cosmologists have many possible models for the Universe, of which only one can be true. A new flowchart will eliminate some of them when two specific ...
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Origin of Neutrino Signal Remains a Mystery 20 July 2016
Physicists have studied the astrophysical neutrino signal as reported by the IceCube collaboration from a different angle with their ANTARES detector....
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ERC Advanced Grant for Physicist Alexey Boyarsky 12 April 2016
Leiden physicist Alexey Boyarsky, together with his colleagues from Lausanne and Copenhagen, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to research an ext...
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Important Step for Dark Matter Experiment CERN 03 February 2016
Particle lab CERN gives the green light for the test phase of an experiment that aims to produce dark matter particles. Physicist Alexey Boyarsky is o...
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Fishing for neutrinos in the Mediterranean Sea 11 December 2015
Physicists, including Dorothea Samtleben from Leiden University, are building a giant underwater telescope to unravel the origin of neutrinos and to s...