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‘An internship can be very enlightening in helping you figure out where your interests lie’28 September 2023Niels 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 peatland23 May 2023Is 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 extinct15 May 2023A 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 2023When 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 202219 July 2022The 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 2022The 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 possible13 June 2022Within 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 2022Pigeons, 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 good07 June 2022Like 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 practice31 May 2022What 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 review23 May 2022Does 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 biodiversity17 May 2022Through various initiatives, Leiden University is trying to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity: the cultivation of a wide variety of ...
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture02 May 2022Dutch 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 evolution18 March 2022A 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 formation16 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 ...