450 news items found
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New assumption-free statistics offer a better choice for many research studies 19 June 2025
PhD candidate Daniël Gomon has developed statistical methods that could significantly improve research in fields like medicine and demography. ‘Mathem...
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Astronomers analyse huge, hot filament of missing normal matter 19 June 2025
A European team of astronomers, led by Leiden-based researcher Konstantinos Migkas, has uncovered a large filament — a long, thread-like structure — o...
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‘I can feel the pain on both sides of the border’ 18 June 2025
How can the Netherlands help secure a peaceful future for Israel and Palestine? At a recent meeting at the university, two remarkable speakers shared ...
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Is our water older than the sun? Astronomers find clue in ice around young star 16 June 2025
A team led by Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy...
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A village on campus: De Kattekop nursery run by psychologist Ellen Buschman 16 June 2025
Parents from all corners of the university bring their children to De Kattekop, the university’s day nursery. De Kattekop is celebrating its 45th anni...
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Lorentz Center ready for the future with a renovation and new wing 16 June 2025
The moving boxes are unpacked, the floors are gleaming, and the workshop rooms look fresh and inviting. On Monday 16 June, the renovated Lorentz Cente...
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A smarter way to search for antibiotics 16 June 2025
Bacteria carry countless hidden treasures in their DNA: fragments that could hold the key to new medicines. But how do you pick out the most promising...
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This course brings opera into the classroom: ‘Many themes are still relevant today’ 13 June 2025
What can opera tell us about societies in the past and present? Leiden honours students went looking for an answer, together with students from the Du...
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Smarter hypothesis testing with statistics: how e-values can improve scientific research 13 June 2025
During his PhD research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-call...
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Sterre won an award for her research on how CO₂ is changing our food 12 June 2025
Sterre ter Haar has won the Rachel Carson Graduation Prize for her thesis on how rising levels of CO₂ affect the nutrient content of plants. For the I...
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Major study offers practical guidance on antibiotic dosing in patients with obesity 12 June 2025
Leiden researcher Anne-Grete Märtson brought together a large number of studies to better understand antibiotic dosing in patients with obesity. The ...
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A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede 11 June 2025
Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) fought for greater popular influence with blazing pamphlets and even a coup d’état. In his PhD dissertation, ...
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A guide to the academic archive 11 June 2025
When you think of a library, you probably picture books – or students quietly studying. But for subject librarian Rutger de Jong, most of the work hap...
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’ 10 June 2025
‘Our infrastructure is under attack, elections are being influenced and political assassinations being committed. We’re already at war – it just looks...
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Between Fact and Fiction, looking to the future: HSVL symposium supports child welfare through LUF 05 June 2025
'Between Fact and Fiction' was the intriguing theme of this year's annual HSVL symposium, which took place on 7 May. This theme was the thread running...