In the media
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Spui Campus: a store of knowledge 07 January 2026Spui Campus is almost ready to open its doors. In the place where the iconic V&D department store started trading back in 1928, thousands of students ...
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Pesticides can have unforseen consequences on nature - yet the EU proposes to remove periodic reassessment 23 December 2025Martina Vijver talks about the impact of pesticides on nature in many Dutch media outlets. This news is now also covered internationally. In Chemical ...
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Climate policy misses the point: damage to wellbeing remains overlooked 17 December 2025Climate change affects our wellbeing in many ways. In The Conversation, Inge Schrijver, Paul Behrens and Rutger Hoekstra of the CML describe how this ...
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Media spotlight on neutrino detection by underwater telescope 21 February 2025Scientists have detected a neutrino with the highest energy ever measured. Leiden physicists Maarten de Jong and Dorothea Samtleben were involved in t...
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Carlo Beenakker explains quantum in de Ongelooflijke Podcast on NPOradio1 21 February 2025Are quantum computers the scientific breakthrough of our time? In this podcast, Carlo Beenakker, Professor of Physics at Leiden University, explains q...
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Leiden University to continue membership of The Conversation 09 December 2024Looking to share your academic results or insights with a global audience? Leiden University is a ‘contributing member’ of the international journalis...
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Julia Cramer in NRC: ‘My goal is to bring quantum technology into society’ 11 November 2024‘Quantum technology is going to change the world, but most people don’t feel connected to it. I want to change that,’ says Julia Cramer, assistant pro...
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Remarkable PhD research: diagnosing sepsis in premature babies 07 May 2024How can we diagnose the life-threatening condition sepsis in premature babies as quickly and accurately as possible? That is what PhD student Manchu T...
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Reality or coincidence? We need to move from probability to evidence. 19 April 2024In studies, it is an old acquaintance, the p-value. But mathematician Peter Grünwald wants to get rid of it. The p-value is too susceptible to fraud a...
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Measuring the pull of gravity on a micron-sized particle 10 April 2024Tjerk Oosterkamp of the Leiden Institute of Physics managed to do the first-ever measurement of gravity on a tiny particle - just 0.43 milligrams - wh...
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Nanotechnology promises to help farmers cut pesticide use – but could also make chemicals more toxic 29 February 2024Nanotechnology has pervaded numerous industrial sectors over the past decades. Although many of us may not be aware of it, nanomaterials are now embed...
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NWO-XS grants for two innovative research projects 12 December 2023Two Leiden Science researchers received an NWO-XS grant for their research. Both projects are highly promising, but also high-risk. Macrophages that t...
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How Euclid will reveal the dark side of the Universe 07 December 2023ESA’s Euclid mission is to reveal the dark side of the Universe. But how? Professor of Observational cosmology Henk Hoekstra explains it in his interv...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023Researchers found a way to run programmes that should be impossible to carry out on an imperfect quantum computer. Such programmes are very computatio...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...