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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture 02 May 2022
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of ene...
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Cities have a direct influence on evolution 18 March 2022
A global biological study has provided the most direct evidence to date that humans, and specifically cities, are the drivers of evolutionary change o...
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Is it possible to avoid dehydration? Gene promotes wood formation 16 March 2022
‘It was a discovery we did not expect,’ says Remko Offringa, professor of Plant developmental genetics. Today he publishes a new trait of a versatile ...
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Veni-grant for Michelle Spierings: ‘Do birds hear tick-tock too, or tock-tick?’ 22 December 2021
‘I did not expect to receive the grant, but it will make an amazing research possible,’ Michelle Spierings says. The researcher of the Institute of Bi...
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Record number of registrations for PhD course microscopy 06 December 2021
‘Microscopy is by far the least understood, most inefficiently operated, and the most abused of all laboratory instruments,’ reads the quote on the of...
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Cum laude PhD defence: natural seed bank drives diversity 22 November 2021
Each year, poppies disperse seeds that grow into a new generation of flowers. Sometimes, some of the seeds postpone their germination for a few years,...
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These eleven Leiden Science researchers are among the most highly cited 19 November 2021
Eleven researchers of the Faculty of Science are on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list of Clarivate Analytics. Only 0.1 per cent of researchers ar...
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Michelle Spierings aims for Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs with musicality animals 26 October 2021
Tapping to a rhythm, recognizing sound patterns and enjoying music: For people, it is common sense. But is this also the case for animals? It is the r...
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Leiden biology student finalist UN youth delegate 22 October 2021
Roel Wouters (24), a biology student at Leiden University, is a finalist in the election for UN youth delegate for Biodiversity and Food. The digital ...
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NWO grant of 350.000 for Wielstra lab 30 September 2021
Ben Wielstra and his team have received a ENW-M-1 grant. This grant of 354.000 euros is awarded by NWO, and will enable the researchers of the Institu...
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Green islands around the University buildings to entice threatened insects 21 September 2021
The number of insect species is plummeting, which is why the University is creating a more biodiverse environment around its buildings. Annetje Ottow,...
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Tropical bananaquits lose song quality in the city 21 September 2021
I think we should go this way. This way! THIS! WAY!! Making yourself heard in a city can be difficult. That is not only the case for humans, but birds...
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Leiden Mayor Lenferink gets his feet dirty for opening Polderlab Oud Ade 10 September 2021
On Thursday 9 September, the mayor of Leiden officially launched a unique ten-year research project in the polder near Oud Ade. During a festive openi...
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Even a duck can parrot 06 September 2021
That a parrot can copycat sounds is nothing new. But vocal learning is not common in animals. Researcher Carel ten Cate of the Institute of Biology Le...
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration 29 June 2021
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this poss...