In the media
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘ 07 June 2024
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and w...
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Remarkable PhD research: diagnosing sepsis in premature babies 07 May 2024
How 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 2024
In 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 2024
Tjerk 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 2024
Nanotechnology 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 2023
Two 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 2023
ESA’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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Liselore Tissen in Leiden Global on ‘bridging the gap between technology and the humanities’ 23 November 2023
External PhD Candidate Liselore Tissen was interviewed by Leiden Global about her work, in which she uses 3D printing. Recently she made a copy of a d...
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Adriaan van der Weel in multiple media on the Ljubljana Manifesto 19 October 2023
Professor Emeritus by special appointment Adriaan van der Weel has co-authored a manifesto on the importance of higher-reading.
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Evelien Campfens at LeidenGlobal on cultural heritage protection 12 April 2023
How can we best protect cultural heritage in times of war? In an interview with LeidenGlobal, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens talks ...
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Tricking a quantum computer to enhance its performance 27 February 2023
Researchers 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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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums 15 February 2023
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted ...
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Pepita Hesselberth in Hermitix podcast about her book 06 February 2023
University lecturers Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois (UvA) were interviewed in a Hermetix podcast about their co-edited book Politics of Withdr...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023
After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...