450 news items found
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL 26 August 2024
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden. During this introduc...
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Satellites reveal: these ecosystems are the most vulnerable to drought 26 August 2024
More severe droughts that will also last longer: this will primarily be a problem for irrigated croplands, as discovered by environmental scientist Qi...
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Five tips for The Night of Discoveries 26 August 2024
Discover budding creators, artists and researchers at the Night of Discoveries art and knowledge festival. And many researchers from Leiden University...
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Maths + match = medals! Leiden students win five medals at international math competition 23 August 2024
Two Second Prizes, two First Prizes and even a Grand Grand First Prize. Five Leiden mathematics students and their team leader have performed exceptio...
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New SPARXS technique reveals DNA behaviour at unprecedented speed 23 August 2024
Studying how single DNA molecules behave helps us to better understand genetic disorders and design better drugs. Until now however, examining DNA mol...
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Investigating inflammation: new leads for treating atherosclerosis 22 August 2024
How do you detect people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes? And how can we improve the treatment of atherosclerosis? These are the questions t...
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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague 19 August 2024
From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hag...
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Three quantum-safe cryptography methods standardised for global use 19 August 2024
Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods se...
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Tropical start to 55th edition of EL CID 12 August 2024
Armed with sunglasses, a thick layer of sunscreen and several bottles of water, over 3,300 students have arrived in Leiden for their introduction week...
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Powerful new Leiden 'super antibiotic' may overcome resistance 08 August 2024
The prestigious journal Science Translational Medicine has published a study by researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) on a potent new...
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Former scientific director physics remains active. ‘Through this role, I continue being part of the future.’ 05 August 2024
For many years, he was active in various management positions at the LION and even after his retirement he is still very involved. Professor Jan Aarts...
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It is not easy to simplify your research 30 July 2024
Defending your PhD research in front of nearly 300 elementary school students: that was the challenge faced by PhD candidates Jo-Anne Verschoor and Ma...
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Lowlands visitors will teach scientists more about quantum mechanics 30 July 2024
Goldband, Skrillex, Róisín Murphy and... quantum: the latter may not be a band but is part of the Lowlands line-up nonetheless. Scientists from Leiden...
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Lies Bouwman appointed as Director of Education at the LIC 29 July 2024
Starting 1 August Lies Bouwman has been appointed as Director of Education at the LIC. She will combine this role with her position as the Programme D...
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Do you know how quantum can change society? Most people don’t 29 July 2024
Quantum technology, statistics and a survey with memes: definitely not your everyday research. Julia Cramer (Leiden Institute of Physics) and Sanne Wi...