450 news items found
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Solitary Quasars with Mysterious Origins 18 October 2024An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be...
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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions 15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day 15 October 2024So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the ...
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From wildlife journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution 14 October 2024Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his Ph...
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows 14 October 2024Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, ha...
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A cocktail of chemicals in surface water is more toxic than each substance individually 14 October 2024Pesticides can form a toxic cocktail when they occur in combination in surface water. This is the finding of research that Leiden University and the D...
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More housing in cities is possible without sacrificing green spaces 14 October 2024Building more in urban areas is, in most places in the Netherlands, the smartest way to tackle the housing crisis. This is evident from research condu...
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A theory rarely proves true in practice 14 October 2024Leiden students often prefer complicated theory and a difficult test to experiments. Yet associate professor Paul Logman believes students learn a lot...
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New video on Leiden student city feature Archaeology student Azra and Biology student Floris 11 October 2024In Leiden University's video series on Leiden and The Hague as student cities, students interview each other at their favorite spots. In the fifth vid...
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Executive Board and University Council discuss security measures 10 October 2024In a confidential meeting, the University Council (UR) and the Executive Board (CvB) have discussed security within our buildings, partly as a result ...
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‘Exposure therapy’ for bachelor students: preparing for the reality of scientific research 10 October 2024Already during their bachelor’s programme, students in Pharmaceutical Sciences are presented with challenging projects. One of these is the Bachelor R...
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Dozens of massive stars launched from young star cluster R136 09 October 2024Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young star cluster R136 in the Lar...
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities 09 October 2024Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Buildi...
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University couple marries ‘in front of all of Leiden’ on 3 October 09 October 2024They have known each other since they were small but Rianne and Tom first fell in love when working together at the university. That love culminated i...
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Children pay more attention to art when descriptions are playful and interactive 09 October 2024The description of a painting directly affects how children look at that artwork. This was discovered by psychologist Francesco Walker in the Rijksmus...