450 news items found
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18 billion animals a year: they die, but never end up on our plate 20 November 2023Each year a staggering 18 billion chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, and cows either die or are killed without making it onto someone's plate. Env...
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ 20 November 2023A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
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Seeking new concepts to treat diseases 20 November 2023Drug development is a long process that begins with fundamental research. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) is considered to be one...
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Honorary doctorate for Canadian-American astrophysicist Sara Seager 17 November 2023Leiden University will confer an honorary doctorate on astrophysicist Sara Seager for her work on exoplanets. Seager will receive the doctorate during...
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Voice of the ocean 16 November 2023There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in t...
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James Webb Space Telescope sees sand clouds on 'cotton candy planet' WASP-107b 16 November 2023A team of European astronomers has found a silicate-based weather system on a cloudy gas planet around the star WASP-107. It is the first time astrono...
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In 450 days... 450 years of Leiden University 16 November 2023In exactly 450 days’ time, on 8 February 2025, it is the university’s 450th anniversary. We are obviously going to celebrate this with our students, s...
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A quick call with Ella Picavet on affordable period products 14 November 2023Many will add them to their shopping list without a second thought, but what if you don't have enough money to buy period products each month? The uni...
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Adapting to climate change: mutation enables flour beetles to speed up their development 13 November 2023Leiden biologists have found a mutation in flour beetles that allows them to speed up their development. They think that more insects can change their...
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’ 13 November 2023The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Clevering...
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’ 13 November 2023The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic a...
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Marco Beijersbergen fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering 13 November 2023Cosine Marco Beijersbergen has been appointed as one of the distinguished 62 fellows of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). With these fello...
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Your opinion of the library counts! 12 November 2023What do you think about our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to ...
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Leiden University’s intake numbers are stable, also for international students 10 November 2023The number of students enrolled at Leiden University remained stable this year. As at other Dutch universities, the growth in recent years seems to ha...
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Leiden University condemns demonstration at Wijnhaven location 09 November 2023The Executive Board of the University is shocked by the unannounced demonstration that took place Thursday afternoon at the Wijnhaven location in The ...