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The Noordeinde is one of the entrances to the historic city center of Leiden. Every day, many visitors, students, residents and entrepreneurs enter and leave our city. Conduct gives the Noordeinde the long-awaited renovation. Noordeinde is redecorated from facade to facade. This is the section from the Wittepoortsbrug to the Noordeinde/Rapenburg/Kort Rapenburg intersection. 30 km/h zone The redevelopment of the …

Chemistry queen Hetty: “This is my attempt to convey the love I feel for chemistry.” (photo Wannes Nimmegeers) Chemistry as the subject of an exciting, fascinating and moving book? Science observer Hetty Helsmoortel has accepted the challenge and has just launched “Chemistry”, a collection of the most surprising stories from “the finest branch of science”. No, Chemistry is not the …

About the episode This week was the hottest day on record globally on average. June was also the hottest June on record globally. Records that should be broken again and again. But when is it somewhere too hot for us humans? According to an English researcher, the upper limit is between 40 and 50 degrees. The problem, he says, lies …

Photo above:While the public has the chance to see the sun up close through the telescopes, Nicolàs and his colleagues explain. Photo: Henk from Reus Castricum – Last Sunday was National Sun Observation Day. It was a unique opportunity to see the sun up close and observe its activities. This was possible in associations and public observatories, but also at …

Seen from afar, all granting procedures are the same. You write a proposal, send it to the grant provider, and they usually say no, and sometimes yes. But if you look closely, you suddenly see variations. In the small difference category: the time of maturity. Almost every procedure has a submission deadline. Usually a time is also given with this …

About seventy million people have created an account on Threads from Wednesday night to Thursday. Facebook’s parent company Meta’s new social media platform has to compete with Twitter. The number of users is “beyond expectations”, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg reports on his own Threads account. The application is available in around 100 countries, but not yet in the European Union. …

Gian van Veen won his PDC Tour Card earlier this year. The 21-year-old Dutchman has already reached the quarter-finals of the European Tour twice. Van Veen looks back with satisfaction on his first six months on the Pro Tour. “It’s going very well, I’ve already managed a few tournaments and I’m now up to 83rd in the world rankings,” says …

What? Ghent University supports the summer academy project and invites employees to have an inspiring (and socially relevant) experience during the summer. Together with passionate colleagues, you teach children (preferably third grade primary education) to take their first steps in science and learning delays are avoided during the summer holidays. Target? Giving young people a positive vision of their future …

Granit Xhaka will play in the Bundesliga again this season. Seven years after Arsenal took over from Borussia Mönchengladbach, the Swiss midfielder returns to the German league as a player for Bayer Leverkusen. When Leverkusen posted clips of the Apollo 13 movie on Twitter, fans knew enough. Xhaka is known for his long shot and rocket-like free kick and is …

As Chief Inspector, Laurens will be responsible for the heritage department, where he will lead the teams for archaeology, monuments, national collections and protected cultural objects. Heritage is at the heart of what makes us Dutch society, monitoring it is vital. Partly based on the 2023-2024 work program, Laurens will commit to improving its quality through supervision in the years …