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No ordinary sea: who governs the Strait of Hormuz?Law of the sea 14 April 2026Which law governs the Strait of Hormuz? Under international law, both Iran and the US are expected to comply with the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. I...
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AI agents, missing persons and human smuggling: students advise professionals14 April 2026How can we become less dependent on the United States in multiple areas? These were the kinds of pressing security questions tackled by third-year Sec...
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Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe14 April 2026Rafal Matuszewski has been unanimously elected to the Board of the Young Academy of Europe.
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Bats on a break: tracking the secret life of pond batsEcologie 14 April 2026What do bats do at night when they’re not hunting? Using tiny GPS trackers, Leiden researchers discovered that pond bats spend a substantial portion o...
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Playing your way to quantum breakthroughs: how quantum games help people —and AI— understand quantum physicsPHYSICS 14 April 2026Quantum games aren’t just a fun way to explain quantum physics — they may also unlock new discoveries. According to physicist Evert van Nieuwenburg, t...
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Teaching and learning toolkit on stars and their many meaningsUni-visions 13 April 2026Download free: an inspiring teaching and learning toolkit by Jos van den Broek exploring star shapes, their symbolic meanings and their role across cu...
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New simulations reveal the cold, dusty reality of galaxy formation13 April 2026Leiden scientists lead COLIBRE, a groundbreaking set of cosmological simulations. By including key missing physics, cold gas and cosmic dust, they off...
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Secondary school students demonstrate knowledge of economics at national Economics Olympiad finalCompetition 13 April 2026Of the 3,750 participants from 100 schools, only 75 students made it to the final stages of the Economics Olympiad in The Hague. On 1 April, they gath...
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies13 April 2026“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter ...
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Karwan Fatah-Black appointed as UNESCO Chair holder13 April 2026Karwan Fatah-Black, a historian at Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities and senior researcher at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southea...
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organisedPhD defence 13 April 2026‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...
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Yung Lin receives Young Scholar Award 202613 April 2026Researcher Yung Lin received the Young Scholar Award at the annual conference of the European Association for Taiwan Studies (EATS). She obtained her ...
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Between street culture and care: young people in hybrid worldsInterview 13 April 2026Young people in forensic practice navigate between street culture, digital networks and care; worlds that are increasingly intertwined. This calls for...
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In Memoriam Ton Anbeek (1944-2026)10 April 2026On Easter Monday, the spring holiday that commemorates and celebrates returning life, A.G.H. Anbeek van der Meijden passed away. From 1982 to 2005 he ...
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Aftermovie: Students make legal support accessible during the Legal Tech ChallengeChallenge 09 April 2026On 2 April, the final of the Legal Tech Challenge 2026 took place in the Academy Building of Leiden University. During the final, teams of students pi...