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120-year-old telescope back after maintenence28 February 2018After a period of maintenance, the 'Photographer' telescope is available once again for visits at the Old Observatory.
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How astronomy aids progress in Africa27 February 2018Astronomy can help address the problems of South Africa, while benefiting other African countries at the same time. This was the message of Naledi Pan...
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Distinguished South African Minister visits Leiden as Honorary Professor20 February 2018On 26th and 27th February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting ...
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Distinguished South African minister visits Leiden as honorary visiting professor16 February 2018In February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting Professor of A...
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Cutting edge science research to broaden youth participation in science & technology fields15 February 2018On 7 February, the first co-creation event of the Expanding (Event) Horizons project took place at Leiden University. Nearly 30 educators, scientists ...
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3D NASA animation shows an old theory from Leiden14 February 2018When professor Frank Israel graduated at Leiden Observatory some forty years ago, little did he know that one of his theories would be making headline...
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Behind the scenes on the Big Bang Theory08 February 2018‘I got into Nature last year, I was nominated for a faculty teaching award and my kids don’t care. But if your simulations get on The Big Bang Theory ...
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Citizen Science Lab launched with workshop about air pollution06 February 2018Scientists and non-scientists co-creating breakthrough citizen science projects for measuring, understanding, and mitigating air pollution. That’s wha...
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Public Event International Day of Women & Girls in Science02 February 2018This event is in Dutch. De Verenigde Naties hebben 11 februari uitgeroepen tot International Day of Women & Girls in Science. De Universiteit Leide...
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Verplicht in- en uitschrijven voor studieactiviteiten02 February 2018
Inschrijven en uitschrijven voor studieactiviteiten is verplicht. Per 1 februari 2018 zijn de regels voor de bacheloropleidingen Natuurkunde en Sterre...
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The Kaiser Spring Lectures are about to start!01 February 2018The program for the Kaiser Spring Lectures 2018 has been published! Visit the Old Observatory in March for four amazing lectures about the Space Age.
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Ewine van Dishoeck receives american prize for leading role in astrochemistry18 January 2018The Dutch scientist prof. dr. Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University and Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, will...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 201709 January 2018With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Habitable planets around pulsars theoretically possible19 December 2017It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars, rotating neutron stars. Such planets must have an enormous atmosphere that c...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year14 December 2017Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...