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Oxygen line opens new perspective on the far universeA team of astronomers of Leiden University and the University of Texas (Austin, United States) has discovered a new way to map distant galaxies. They ...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talentsMathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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New water jet cutter for Fine Mechanical DepartmentThe Fine Mechanical Department's (FMD) new Wardjet A0612 will cut anything using a 4000 bar water jet. This enables the FMD to work faster, more accur...
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Hans Sigrist Prize for astronomer Ignas SnellenOn Saturday 7 December, Leiden professor of Observational Astrophysics Ignas Snellen received the Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern. The ...
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Searching explanations for mysterious structures in protoplanetary disksIn the discs of dust and gasses around young stars, mysterious structures occur. Together with professor Ewine van Dishoeck, PhD student Paolo Cazzole...
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Tracking galaxies from a few glowing pixelsIn 2018, astronomer Jorryt Matthee won the C.J. Kok Jury Prize for the best dissertation from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He succ...
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The most popular articles of 2019From children’s inability to identify animals to a big protest at the opening of the academic year: below are some of our most popular articles of 2019.
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited listSeventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.
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Searching for the origins of life in space with 8.9 million eurosWith 8.9 million euros from the Danish National Research Foundation, Aarhus University and Leiden Observatory will establish the Center for Interstell...
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A first glimpse at the new SRON buildingSRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. The headquarters of the institute will relocate to the Science Campus of Leiden University. I...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film FestivalA film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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‘Relocation SRON only offers opportunities’SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research is moving. In 2021, the Utrecht branch of the institute will be located in South-Holland. Leiden profess...
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives honorary doctorate from the University of GenevaAstrophysicist Ewine van Dishoeck has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva. She received the award on 11 October during th...
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A matter of dark matterIs our universe built up out of warm or cold dark matter? The standard model assumes cold dark matter particles, but astronomer Sylvia Ploeckinger is ...
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibitionA moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astro...