The historic collection of surveying instruments was moved to the tower room of Kanaalweg 4 last summer. The objects have returned to the place where surveying in the Netherlands started.
Once integrated on chips, nanofabricated quantumbits hold the promise of ultra-fast quantum computing. Unfortunately however, these building blocks of future quantum computers are very unstable.
TU Delft’s entry ‘Pret-a-Loger’ at the biannual building competition Solar Decathlon earned third prize in Versailles this summer. The terraced house with a second skin was top-scorer on sustainability thanks to the choice of renovation instead of new construction.
Amsterdam will have a new attraction on its classy PC Hooft shopping street next autumn. One of the shops will be getting a unique glass brick wall.
Op de Daewoo scheepswerf in Zuid-Korea dragen arbeiders een robotpak waarmee ze zonder inspanning zware stukken metaal optillen.
Het ideeHet Havenbedrijf Rotterdam zat er maar mee in zijn maag. Al die lege containers die het moest opstallen. Ze namen teveel ruimte in beslag.
Weleens geprobeerd om tijdens de spits met de auto vanaf de campus de A13 richting Rotterdam op te komen? Precies. In de hoop de snelweg gedoseerd te belasten, zet het doseringsstoplicht de toerit bomvol – en met een beetje pech de wegen daar naartoe incluis.
Scientists from TU Delft’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience were able to detect extremely small changes in forces on graphene. They believe they can make nano-electro-mechanical devices of graphene that could one day be used as sensors in mobile phones.
Not only dogs and rats can sniff out explosives. Genetically modified bacteria can do so too. Or so TU Delft students participating at the at the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition believe.
