TU alumnus Bas Overvelde has developed controllably inflatable elements suitable to be used as soft muscles for robots. He published his results, achieved at Harvard University, in PNAS last Monday.
The Technical University of Eindhoven fired a Russian researcher in quantum optics after the Dutch security services warned he was spying for his home country. What information could he possibly have sold?
With their ‘brain neuroimaging van’ scientists from Amsterdam and Delft visit stroke patients at their home to measure brain activation patterns. By learning more about brain plasticity, they eventually hope to help improve the recovery process.
As extreme rainfalls are becoming more frequent, green gutters and permeable pavements that allow water to infiltrate, help prevent flooding.
Researchers of TU Delft have shed light on the way DNA replication stops in the Escherichia coli bacterium. The research is an important milestone towards understanding DNA replication in bacteria.
Professor Seumas Miller of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management has been awarded a European Research Grant of 2.5 million euros for a five year research project on global terrorism and collective moral responsibility.
The Dutch company Elemental Water Makers delivered its first solar-powered desalination plant to the Virgin Islands last weekend. Their technology enables inhabitants to produce drinking water from seawater with solar energy.
A group of physicists from The University of California San Diego (UCSD) in collaboration with Guido Janssen from TU Delft published a paper in June of this year looking at how graphene can be used to help tune and change polaritons, offering the potential to advance the development of optics and plasmionics.
TU Delft IDE undergraduate student Leroy Huikeshoven has used 3D printing technology to bring a research paper to life. As part of a student competition Huikeshoven took the design for a 3D printed technology which can diagnose malaria, and turned it into a consumer product.
The role of design in global health and how it can contribute to equitable healthcare access worldwide was discussed at a mini-symposium held on Friday July 10, 2015.