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New dataset helps to understand environmental impact of offshore windfarms10 August 2021While offshore wind farms generate clean and green energy, scientists are becoming increasingly aware of the harmful impact they may have on marine li...
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago20 July 2021Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much ...
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Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisited': making an impact with art13 July 2021To achieve societal impact, you need to do more than solely writing academic articles. That's the idea behind the Master Honours Class 'Leiden Revisit...
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‘Every year new highs for PRINS consultancy programme'28 June 2021The World Food Programme, Philips, the European Space Agency. An overwhelming list of organisations that Sarita Koendjbiharie, as founder of the PRINS...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 202116 June 2021The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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Animation: Why Leiden is the birthplace of the Janssen vaccine25 May 2021If you'll soon be getting a COVID-19 vaccine, you might just get the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) one. This vaccine was developed for the most part in ...
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The usefulness of science: ‘Room for exchanging questions, values and ideas'07 May 2021Is scientific research useful? In his dissertation, Jorrit Smit argues that in order to answer this question one should not look at, for example, prom...
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector19 January 2021Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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It costs money to borrow money, but how much and for how long?12 January 2021Minou van der Werf advocates applying insights from social psychology to financial behaviour. Even small practical interventions can help people to ma...
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A YouTube channel for exoplanet researchers30 November 2020Professor Ignas Snellen has developed an online platform where exoplanet researchers can post videos about their work: exoplanet-talks.org. ‘For young...
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!11 November 2020Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research23 October 2020The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Leiden European City of Science in 202207 September 2020The title of European City of Science was officially handed over to a delegation from Leiden in the Italian city of Trieste on 6 September. Leiden wil...
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Robert Zwijnenberg: ‘Don’t just talk but dare to get your hands dirty’21 July 2020Rob Zwijnenberg, Professor of Art and Science Interactions, uses daring experiments to get his students to think about social issues. "People who I in...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’03 July 2020Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...