During the Amsterdam Innovation relay on 12 November, the TU and the company Algae Food & Fuel signed a contract for a six-year research project into algae production. Algal Food & Fuel intends to upscale the Delft technology into a production line for algal oil.
Mars is een risicoplaneet. Meer dan de helft van de missies daarheen faalden. India wil als eerste Aziatische land de rode planeet bereiken en lanceerde ruimtesonde Mangalyaan. “Als het India lukt, is het zeer indrukwekkend.”
Een scheur in een militair transportvliegtuig – een leek ziet er op voorhand al een scenario in voor een slecht aflopende rampenfilm. Gelukkig kun je die scheurtjes in werkelijkheid prima voorspellen, en verhelpen voor dat scheurtje een levensgevaarlijke scheur wordt.
Infections in joint prosthesis can lead to serious complications. Dr. Bogdan Stefan Necula believes he has found the silver bullet to solve this problem.
A new mathematical model developed by Dr. Sasa Kenjeres and colleagues shows that more trees on the campus would reduce wind nuisance around the EWI-building considerably.
Scientists reconstructed the properties and the trajectory of the meteor which exploded above Russia earlier this year. These blasts are not as rare as previously thought.
Darwin revolutionized our way of thinking about life by realizing the potential of natural selection through survival of the fittest. Delft biotechnologists believe that the same mechanism can help the biobased economy, by the ‘survival of the fattest’.
More accurate medical diagnostics and much faster telecommunication. Those are the promises of a ‘nanoscopic light house’ recently invented by optics researcher Prof. Taco Visser and colleagues.
“Unknown aircraft, you are in American airspace. Identify yourself.” Such phrases, much used in bad Hollywood films, might soon sound terribly outdated thanks to Delft research.
