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WATER FLEA
If you throw a flea into the water, it doesn't suddenly become a water flea. In fact, water fleas aren't even real fleas! They’re small crustaceans called Daphnia which can be traced all the way back to the Jurassic period. This means that, yes, water fleas coexisted with dinosaurs! For centuries, water fleas have played an important role in ecosystems: they eat (bad) algae and are an important food source for many fish and salamanders. In addition, they have some wicked genetics. Some water fleas have as many as 31,000 different genes. To put that into context, a human has only 20,000! Water fleas aren’t as insignificant as you’d think…
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LS&H - EUFEPS/FIGON DMD Annual Meeting
TheEUFEPS/FIGON DMD Annual Meetingwill take place from 1 to 3 June with the theme 'Boosting sustainable drug development in Europe: Top scie...
LS&H - Life Sciences Café: LBSP x unlock_LiveSciences x EUFEPS/ FIGON DMD
Join us on 2 June after work at the Life Sciences Café at Naturalis. We are very excited to organise our monthly network drinks in collabora...
Route of Discoveries
There have been a lot of amazing and important discoveries done in Leiden. Follow the Route of Discoveries: see new places in the city or fi...
Playing with mathematics
Maths is really everywhere. Make a whirlpool and build your own bridge. Discover what sound looks like and play with perspective like an art...
