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17 December 2015

Pre-Neanderthalers could handle complex techniques
An international team of researchers including Leiden archaeologists has produced convincing evidence that 300,000 years ago pre-Neanderthal people had a high level of cognitive complexity. New insights into early human capabilities and behaviour.

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Leiden University wishes you a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.
New method of detecting rapid virus development

Physicists, including Leiden researcher, Sanli Faes, have devised a new technique for studying processes at microscale rapidly and extremely precisely...

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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful'

The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology...

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Leiden University to strengthen research on Africa

The Leiden Africa Study Centre (ASCL) will become part of the University from 1 January 2016.

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Fishing for neutrinos in the Mediterranean Sea

Physicists, including Dorothea Samtleben from Leiden University, are building a giant underwater telescope to unravel the origin of neutrinos and to s...

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More news
 
President Poroshenko: ‘I hope the Dutch people will make a wise decision’
 
Universities and Elsevier reach agreement on Open Access
 
Leiden best comprehensive university in valorisation ranking
Leiden Classics
Jan Hendrik Oort star of Dutch radio astronomy
 
Leiden through the eyes of...
Niloufar Rahim: ‘As a former refugee, I want to give something back’
International students
Student for a Day at International Bachelor in Psychology - 7 January
Online experience day International Studies - 20 January
Meet us in your country
International staff
P & O News 8 December
Salary increase
Coming events
18 December: Debate “Tunisia is the way”
9 January: Dutch Papyrologists’ Day
8 February: Dies Natalis 2016
8 February: Grand Opening Biotech Training Facility
Laureates
Bareez Majid wins IISG thesis prize with study on torture museum
Master student wins European Youth Award!
Unilever Research Prize 2015 for Biologist Flor Rhebergen
Books
The town, its waste and the cesspit
Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad
Blogs
Leiden Law Blog:  Deprivation as a punishment for non-cooperative migrants
Leiden Anthrolopogy blog: Discrimination? Maybe not. Annoying? You bet!
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