Bacteria can colonise environments packed with lethal antibiotics, scientists at TU Delft’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience discovered.
Nobel laureate Professor Jack Szostak from Harvard Medical School visited the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience. He explained how chemistry might have kick-started life in volcanic lakes.
At the start of June it was announced that the Dutch government, alongside TU Delft, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and six other institutions, have pledged to invest €135 million over the next decade to develop quantum computing.
Dr. Daphne Stam, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, spoke to Delta about the Philae comet lander and what we hope to find now that it has woken up.
The Dutch government has been ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020 in a landmark case decided in the district court of The Hague on June 24, 2015.
Water hyacinth is a serious pest. A free-floating plant with lavender flowers, this weed is choking tropical fresh waters, suffocating lakes, blocking shipping and hurting local economies. So why not turn it into animal food suggests civil engineer Viktor Valk.
An airplane without wing flaps, a satellite that uses a gyroscope to remain stable and a drone for search and rescue missions. These are some of the student projects presented today during the Design/Synthesis symposium.
The design studios at the Faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering had 60 prototypes on display on June 29, 2015. Helpful students demonstrated their products.
Is the world becoming more peaceful? Applied probabilist Pasquale Cirillo (EEMCS Faculty) and Nassim Taleb of New York University crunched the numbers and came to a disturbing conclusion.
