In the media
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Rigidity affects immune responses24 March 2020The immune system is tasked with protecting the host against infectious agents, however it must do so without exerting exuberant immune responses that...
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World news: eleven asteroids on a collision course with Earth09 March 2020The discovery that eleven asteroids might collide with our Earth has become world news. The research of three Leiden astronomers has appeared on more ...
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‘Holland, invest in the national AI-ecosystem’27 February 2020The European Commission published new plans on artificial intelligence on 19 February. According to Holger Hoos, professor in Machine Learning at the ...
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Improving football skills using data-mining10 February 2020Using positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...
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Topological Metamaterials in the media31 January 2020Press coverage for the Nature Physics-paper about topological materials by Anne Meeussen, Erdal Oğuz, Yair Shokef and Martin van Hecke
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Huub de Groot breaks down artificial photosynthesis12 December 2019In a promotional video for the SUNRISE initiative, prof. Huub de Groot explains the impact and ideas behind artificial photosynthesis.
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More accurate estimation of cross-border internet purchases05 December 2019How can cross-border internet purchases be accurately estimated? Researchers Quinten Meertens, Cees Diks, Jaap van den Herik and Frank Takes of the Le...
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint28 November 2019A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environm...
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Computer program AlphaStar reaches professional level in video game StarCraft II21 November 2019For the first time, a computer can compete with the very best human players in StarCraft II, a video game played by tens of thousands at a professiona...
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‘Nothing is so special about human intelligence, that it cannot be replicated in a machine’07 November 2019Is the possibility of computers making decisions for us in the future realistic? Holger Hoos, professor of Machine Learning, gives his opinion about t...
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Puzzlegami: Martin van Hecke Lab in the media17 October 2019The Van Hecke group published in Nature Physics about programmable origami, which was covered in the following media.
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Chris Smiet wins Christiaan Huygens prize07 October 2019Christopher Berg Smiet, who defended his thesis at LION with Dirk Bouwmeester, won the Christiaan Huygens prize for his thesis '‘Knots in Plasma’. On...
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Leiden Observatory comet research goes viral19 September 2019From Mexico and Indonesia to China and Italy: people from all over the world read about the Leiden Observatory publication on the birthplace of comets...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive27 August 2019Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...