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Understanding Single Photon DetectorsLeiden physicists have developed a way to address how accurately a superconducting single photon detector (SSPD) can be characterized by detector tomo...
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First PhD with a cum laude distinction for Jurriaan RotOn Thursday, October 15th 2015 Jurriaan Rot got his PhD with a cum laude distinction by defending his dissertation entitled Enhanced Coinduction.
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'Fortress Europe' at the Humanities Lab CafeThursday 1 October, Humanities Lab hosted the second edition of the Humanities Lab Cafe; this edition’s theme was migration. Professors Leo Lucassen a...
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Anatomically modern humans reached China well before settling in Europe
In Nature researchers at Leiden University and Utrecht University show how 47 teeth from Southern China indicate that anatomically modern humans where...
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Combination of general and regional approach can give clean waterInterview in the popular journal for the agricultural sector Nieuwe Oogst with CML-researcher Martina Vijver about the Dutch policy on pesticides and ...
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Bronze Age Bling
In January 2015, during an excavation ahead of a road-building project in the west of the Netherlands, archaeologists from the Faculty of Archaeology ...
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Lecture prof. Christensen
On reputation Management and Social Accountability in Universities
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University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journal...
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Mysterious ripples racing through planet-forming diskAn international team of astronomers, including Leiden’s Christian Ginski, has discovered previously unobserved structures in a debris disk around a n...
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Sarah de Rijcke new member of Science in Transition
Science in Transition joins an international chorus that points out flaws in the science system and aim for change in the governance of science.
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Exhibition on Suriname reveals a hidden historyWho still remembers that Leiden attracted a lot of reds from Suriname during the 1970s? The exhibition ‘Dynamic Suriname’ offers a number of surprisin...
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''Governing Crime and Migration' combines theory and real-life experience'
During last summer, the Faculty of Law offered an Honours Class about the theme 'Governing Crime and Migration'. Hillary Mellinger, one of the partici...
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A new step in the search for the origin of dark matterA signal that is present both in the centre of our Milky Way and in distant places in the universe could reveal the origin of dark matter. This is wha...
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New Book: A Grammar of MandarinA fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed...
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Horizon2020 grant for toxicologist Bob van de WaterAn international research consortium led by Bob van de Water, Professor of Toxicology at Leiden University, has been awarded a prestigious Horizon2020...