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The report (in Dutch) shows that the period 1977 to 1990 saw income inequality rise, but in the following two decades it remained more or less stable. This stability was due in the most part to tax reforms. For example, the tax and social…

Work started today on the Kolffpad student complex, with 289 flats for students from Leiden University. Stichtnig DUWO will own the building and the University owns the site at the Bio Science Park. The building should be complete by…

Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes…

The National Accessibility Week is an initiative of Ieder(in). They strive for a society that is inclusive of all people with disabilities. During the National Accessibility Week, events are organised throughout the country to draw…

Exoplanets are planets that orbit another star than our own sun. ‘In our research group we develop smart optical techniques for extracting as much information as possible from the little light coming off these planets,’ he says. ‘Even if…

What if we could modify small organisms to make them gorge on CO2? Or extract nitrogen from the air and convert it into fertiliser? This would enable us to make these organisms into smart allies in the nitrogen crisis or in the fight…

After the war there was a mass exodus of Dutch people who dreamt of a better life overseas. They had their own reasons to pack their bags: overpopulation, unemployment, food shortages, housing shortages, the stultifying environment or a…

The idea behind the National ThinkTank is to harness the mental power of 20 supersmart young people – current or recently graduated master’s students and PhD candidates – to solve a current problem in society. The 20 work together…

The series (in English) will expound on the topics General Roméo Dallaire covered in his Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2020, such as moral courage, disobeying orders, leadership, moral injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),…

Despite representing a major problem in modern society, cancer is not a recent disease. First described in ancient written sources by Egyptian physicians, and more recently confirmed in human mummies, tumor growth has manifested itself…