548 search results for “chemical weapons” in the Student website
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Laura BogueFaculty of Science
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Kas SteutenFaculty of Science
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Preparing for the next pandemic: scientists discover a new class of influenza antivirals
Researchers from Leiden University, University of York, University of Barcelona/IQTCUB/ICREA and The Francis Crick Institute report a new class of experimental compounds that powerfully block influenza viruses. The findings offer a potential new strategy for treating flu infections and preparing for…
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Archaeologist Valerio Gentile investigates Bronze Age spear combat
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team from Leiden and Göttingen University present a new approach to answering these questions: they simulated the actual fight…
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Eva George MatlalcuatziFaculty of Science
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Yixuan WangFaculty of Science
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Lucas Moritz BickemFaculty of Science
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Jessica HoangFaculty of Science
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Alexandra VelthuijzenFaculty of Science
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Benjamin BakkerFaculty of Science
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Kim BongerFaculty of Science
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David LickoFaculty of Science
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Thijmen MostertFaculty of Science
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Luuk ReinaldaFaculty of Science
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Lucía Tocornal DíazFaculty of Science
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Heleen PeetersFaculty of Science
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Rocaya AliFaculty of Science
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Femke Reidsma to Harvard with Rubicon Grant for research on early fire use
Researcher Femke Reidsma has been awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant. With this fellowship, she will spend two years conducting research at Harvard University, where she will join a leading paleoecology laboratory.
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More legal firearms do not lead to more murders in Europe
A higher level of legal firearm availability does not lead to more violent deaths in Europe but does lead to more female deaths.
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Archaeologist Marie Soressi joins the discussion about the early use of bow-and-arrow technology in Europe
Nature News reported on the use of bow-and-arrow for hunting based on the research made on small points found in a 54,000-year-old cave site in southern France.
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Firearms incidents in the EU tracked real-time
Leiden criminologists have co-developed an artificial intelligence technology that tracks firearms incidents by scanning over 350 news sources.
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First comprehensive study on gun violence in Europe identifies alarming trends
The steady decline in lethal gun violence in the EU came to halt in 2012 and some countries, such as Sweden, have even noticed an increase since then. An arms race among drug criminals and an increase in the availability of illegal firearms could lead to more criminal and gun violence. This is one of…
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Rob BosmanFaculty of Science
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Sebastian GeibelFaculty of Science
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Sean McKennaFaculty of Science
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Jingming LiuFaculty of Science
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Rico SingerFaculty of Science
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Amit CherianFaculty of Science
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Anne WentinkFaculty of Science
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Annemarieke PostmusFaculty of Science
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Athanasios PatsosFaculty of Science
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Arina BelovFaculty of Science
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Monika TimmerFaculty of Science
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Helen KoendjbiharieFaculty of Science
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Dane MarijanFaculty of Science
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Mirjam HuizengaFaculty of Science
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Xinyu DiFaculty of Science
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Thierry ShemaFaculty of Science
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Teun SweereFaculty of Science
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Ritu GhanghasFaculty of Science
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Floor StevensFaculty of Science
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Zoë VogelaarFaculty of Science
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Brecht EllenbroekFaculty of Science
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Jana VolaricFaculty of Science
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Liesbeth van der VeldenFaculty of Science
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Lucie DelfosFaculty of Science
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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What does the current international security environment look like?
Eva Michaels talks about the current international security environment, including intelligence issues with Sir John Sawers in an interview in El País.