Birdwatchers in the Rijksmuseum demonstrated a new semantic annotation system that invites web users to enter information on the drawing or painting they see.

Helium-filled bubbles and powerful lasers trace airflow around objects in the Aerospace windtunnel with unprecedented precision. Researchers Fulvio Scarano and Andrea Sciacchitano want to take their technology outside of the lab and into the sporting arena’s.

Het weekend van de wetenschap (3 en 4 oktober 2015) staat in het teken van licht. Op de TU Delft vindt verrassend onderzoek plaats onder dit thema. We lichten er een aantal onderwerpen uit.

Inside Li-ion batteries, phase transitions occur that crack the electrodes. Under fast (dis)charging, however, these phase transitions do not occur, wrote Dr. Marnix Wagemaker and colleagues in Nature Communications on September 23, 2015. Counterintuitively perhaps, fast charging prolongs the lifetime of batteries.

The student team from Project Biolink had a successful weekend at the iGEM finale in Boston from 25-28 September 2015. They were awarded four prizes including the Grand Prize Undergraduate overall prize.