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Leiden through the eyes of Matthew FieldsMatthew Fields, from Philadelphia, US, came to Leiden to study astronomy as part of the Euroscholars scheme. 'I came here to gain valuable research ex...
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Obtaining a PhD at Teylers Museum at age of 68Most people would not even consider it, starting a PhD at the age of 62. However, for the former Teylers Museum curator Bert Sliggers it was like a dr...
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Five Veni awards for Leiden Science researchersFive promising researchers at Leiden's Faculty of Science have received a Veni award from NWO. They can use the award - of up to 250,000 euros - to ca...
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Philanthropist Dr Raymond Sackler has passed away (97)American philanthropist Dr Raymond Sackler has died at the age of 97. Dr Sackler was a psychiatrist and developer of medicines, with which he made his...
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First Open Science Centre engages rural communities with scienceThe first location of the Open Science Centre network was opened on 7 July in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal. A Portuguese Minister and a State...
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Dutch ‘big data’ telescope finds exoplanetsAstronomers at Leiden University have discovered the first planets using a new instrument: the planet hunter MASCARA. This instrument, developed at Le...
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Space mission for gravitational waves gets green lightThe European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the proposal for gravitational wave detector LISA. The launch for the space detector is planned in 2034. ...
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Orbiting black holes explained with super computerTwo black holes, in close orbit around each other. Have they slowly drifted together, or did they emerge from two orbiting stars? Together with to col...
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Artificial brain helps Gaia satellite catch speeding starsWith the help of software that mimics a human brain, ESA’s Gaia satellite spotted six stars zipping at high speed from the centre of our Galaxy to its...
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Cosmic recipe discovered for making glycerolA team of laboratory astrophysicists from Leiden University managed to make glycerol under conditions comparable to those in dark interstellar clouds....
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PhD prize for astronomer Adrian HamersAdrian Hamer, who obtained his PhD in the group of Simon Portegies Zwart on 21 June 2016, receives a prestigious PhD thesis award prize of the Interna...
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What the galaxy will look like billions of years from nowWhat’s the fate of our sun, when in 5 billion years from now our Milky Way will clash with the Andromeda Galaxy? Leiden astronomers have been working ...
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Traces of building block of life found around infant sunsALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate - a chemical building block of lif...
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Two Vidi's at SterrewachtJordy Bouwman and future Sterrewachter Reinout van Weeren have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of research.
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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire universityRadio telescope LOFAR maps the sky. It produces incredibly detailed images of the universe - and vast amounts of data. Huub Röttgering, director of th...