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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined' 25 January 2024
The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific ...
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production 19 December 2023
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started t...
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Green roofs and tile flipping: research in The Hague on the best approach to climate and species diversity 05 December 2023
Does a communal garden provide cool air and warm neighbourly relations? Does an additional row of trees increase biodiversity? These kinds of question...
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‘An internship can be very enlightening in helping you figure out where your interests lie’ 28 September 2023
Niels Broekman did an internship at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, where he worked on, among other things, biodiversity advocac...
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland 23 May 2023
Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden Univer...
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If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct 15 May 2023
A wide range of plant species is essential to our earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has dec...
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What do we define as urban green space? 17 March 2023
When do we define a piece of nature in the city as a park? And when is something a tree or shrub? It may seem obvious, but in scientific literature th...
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Jos Raaijmakers nominated for Huibregtsenprijs 2022 19 July 2022
The research project of Jos Raaijmakers is nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2022. The researcher of NIOO, with a guest appointment at the Institute ...
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same' 06 July 2022
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the fin...
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Supergenes make bizarre traits possible 13 June 2022
Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berd...
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Biologist Carel ten Cate will now really retire. Right? 08 June 2022
Pigeons, zebra finches and parakeets. Carel ten Cate studied bird sounds. But not just that. Together with linguists from Leiden, he investigated para...
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Collaborating bacteria sacrifice themselves for the greater good 07 June 2022
Like ants, termites and bees, some bacteria work together as a multicellular group. There is a strict division of labour in such colonies, to make the...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice 31 May 2022
What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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When does resistance to toxins evolve in animals? Students publish major review 23 May 2022
Does a snake die when it bites its lip? Why will a mongoose survive a scorpion’s sting, but we humans perish? These questions occupied the minds of to...
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Living Labs and ‘pavement plants’: Leiden University’s contributions to biodiversity 17 May 2022
Through various initiatives, Leiden University is trying to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity: the cultivation of a wide variety of ...