In the media
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A breakthrough in salt tolerance knowledge for application in saline agriculture23 February 2017The Salt Farm Texel, supported by a number of professors from various Dutch universities, offered a report on saline agriculture to the Minister for A...
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Corentin Coulais in NRC and New Scientist16 February 2017Newspaper NRC and popular scientific magazine New Scientist write about Corentin Coulais’ research on one-way-traffic metamaterials. He published a pa...
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Joost Frenken on Radio 1 Langs de Lijn en Omstreken01 February 2017Physicist Joost Frenken was interviewed on the radio show 'Langs de Lijn en Omstreken' (Radio 1) about the recent discovery of superconductive graphen...
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Interview Mare: Microplastics are everywhere, we don't know yet if that does no harm30 January 2017Microplastics are small pieces of plastic found in the environment. At CML research have been conducted in the distribution of these plastics on beach...
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Tjerk Oosterkamp in New Scientist on Elfstedentocht10 January 2017Because the last Elfstedentocht celebrates its twentieth anniversary, New Scientist spoke with physics professor Tjerk Oosterkamp about his research o...
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Leiden astronomers in astronomy podcast19 December 2016Five Leiden astronomers tell about science in the podcast Astronomy et al. This podcast was set up by Ricardo Garcia Soto in September 2016 and is foc...
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Pedro Russo on gender preconceptions on Times Higher Education07 December 2016Three in four scientists depicted in primary school science textbooks are men, according to a recent study by Observatory scientist Pedro Russo. In an...
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DWDD University uses Leiden Physics experiments05 December 2016In the latest episode of DWDD University on 'Light', Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf used a number of experiments from the Leiden Physics Practicum Lab. He sh...
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Publication PhD student Eva Kritikou accepted in Scientific Reports:30 November 2016A recent publication by Biopharmaceutics PhD-candidate Eva Kritikou has been accepted by the renowned scientific journal Scientific Reports.
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Winner Physics Image Award is Volkskrant Image of the Week28 November 2016Vera Meester has won the annual Physics Image Award 2016, with her photo of 'smiling' colloids. The Volkskrant published the picture as Image of the W...
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36 ditches as living lab for water quality14 November 2016On Monday 14 November, the first spadeful of earth was dug for the construction of the Living Lab, an experimental test site to study living organisms...
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Leiden Wall formulas on TV channel Omroep West08 November 2016On Thursday 3 November, Leiden University celebrated the official opening of two wall formulas in the Leiden city centre. Snell's law and the formula ...
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Beestieboys visit Philippine crocodile project07 November 2016The VPRO children’s television show Beestieboys visited the Philippine crocodile project of the Mabuwaya Foundation. Presenters Tim and Nicolaas met C...
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Leiden researchers win public award in Smartest Project contest04 October 2016A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...
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Astronomers from Leiden write IEEE Software Impact column09 September 2016Professor Simon Portegies Zwart and doctor Jeroen Bédorf had the honour to write for the IEEE Software magazine.