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Packages of DNA strands containing silver, measuring just two or three nanometres in size. Leiden physicists Donny de Bruin and Dirk Bouwmeester create these packages, which can enter living cells on their own. They then activate the silver with light, causing the cells to break down. This could, in…

Swarms of drones, pedestrians or the cells in your body. Those are all examples of active matter: materials whose building blocks can move autonomously. That’s what Luca Giomi studies. Giomi has been appointed Professor of theoretical physics in the area of soft matter and biological physics at the…

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Rob van der Veer has an extensive software development background and nine years in CEO roles. Rob established the security & privacy practice and the AI practice at Software Improvement Group (SIG). He frequently speaks and writes on these topics, on which he is CSSLP and CPEH certified. In…

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Dr. R.W. Heinsch Prof.dr. C. Stahn Summary: During armed conflict, non-State armed groups (NSAGs) deprive individuals of their liberty on a regular basis. Examples can be found in Colombia, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), among many others. Yet,…

Leiden physicists Alexandre Morin and Samadarshi Maity study self-organisation and flocking phenomena. They shed light on flocking, which helps to understand how it is possible that birds in a flock don't collide. With plastic microbeads, they create an experimental setup and they developed a mathematical…

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