450 news items found
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Career Days launch ‘Don’t just focus on success’ 16 April 2025‘Health, happiness and productivity. The focus is mainly on the latter, but to create a sustainable career you need all three.’ These were the words o...
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Article from 1984 remains a hit: citation count passes 10,000 16 April 2025It was already the most cited publication ever written at our faculty, but now a new milestone has been reached. Last month, a paper by emeritus profe...
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Claim that Executive Board agreed to join 11 April discussion is incorrect 10 April 2025End Fossil, Open Leiden and Students for Palestine incorrectly claim that a meeting will be held with the Executive Board on Friday 11 April. This sta...
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Updated nitrogen map and new strategy: How can we meet the nitrogen targets? 09 April 2025Nitrogen professor Jan Willem Erisman and Ton Brouwer have released a new report presenting scenarios to actually meet the agricultural nitrogen targe...
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Leiden scientists create first-ever dengue-on-a-chip to study this deadly virus 08 April 2025Researchers at Leiden University have created a unique model that mimics how disease develops after a dengue infection. This 'dengue-on-a-chip' model ...
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Field trip to sustainable farm shows ‘what you can achieve if you chart your own path’ 08 April 2025How to take ownership of your career? To find out, students from ‘Design Your Career as a Climate Change Maker’ visited a farmer who has done just tha...
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NWO funding for five FWN projects within the Dutch Research Agenda 08 April 2025Can humans perceive single photons? What is our place in the universe? How can we make quantum computers more stable? Five researchers from the Facult...
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Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025 07 April 2025Fifty euros, a place on the LION photo wall and eternal fame: this is what the winner of the annual LION Image Award gets. This year, the prize goes t...
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New Horizons in Physics prize for Sebastiaan Haffert: ‘Very honoured’ 07 April 2025‘The Oscars of the natural sciences’, is what they are called: the Breakthrough Prizes awarded annually in America by the Breakthrough Foundation. Par...
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Bold and anxious fish help in the hunt for medication for ADHD and depression 04 April 2025Personality is genetic in zebrafish: risk-taking parents have risk-taking children. These are the findings of research by Christian Tudorache and his ...
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Antique telescope moved to the atrium of the Gorlaeus Building 03 April 2025No joke: on 1 April, the antique Van de Wall telescope was relocated to the atrium of the Gorlaeus Building. Have you spotted it yet?
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Let the robot lend a hand in the pharmacy (it’s more sustainable too) 03 April 2025Can a robot help prepare cancer medication in a hospital pharmacy? That’s what hospital pharmacist Tjerk Geersing investigated in his PhD research. He...
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Building the best possible mini-liver (without making it too complex) 03 April 2025How do organs work in the body, and how can we create mini-organs to study diseases and test new medicines? That’s the idea behind organ-on-a-chip tec...
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Jasper's day 01 April 2025Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, J...
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Chemistry as the key to medical innovation 31 March 2025Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison...