Ozone hole
Above the North Pole, unprecedented ozone destruction has occurred in early 2011. A team of researchers, including those from TU Delft and KNMI, has published their findings in Nature (29 September).
The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to the three Americans who, in 1998, showed that the expansion of the universe 14 billion years after the Big Bang has not slowed down. Instead, it speeds up. “A bizarre concept,” says professor of astrodynamics, Boudewijn Ambrosius.
Delft researchers gave a microscope a twist and turned it into a record-breaking fabrication tool for nanoscopic devices.
“Look at these little lines, they look dull, don’t they?”, asks nanotechnologist Dr Paul Alkemade (Applied Sciences), pointing at a little piece of silicon.
Space travel is highly jeopardized by debris orbiting the world, space debris expert Ron Noomen believes.
China launched its first space lab module last week, underscoring its aspiration to become a major space power in the decades to come.
While deceiving appearances may cause us to believe that being blonde and
intelligent are mutually exclusive, they may in fact be potentially inclusive.
They are credited for a milder city climate, cleaner air and improved insulation. But how well do green walls really perform? Ashraf Mir (MSc) graduated on the topic.
How to adapt the power grid to the challenges of distributed generation and fluctuating inputs from renewable sources? Professor Lou van der Sluis presented his new book on smartgrid research last Tuesday.
In Bangladesh millions of wells are contaminated with arsenic. Doris van Halem, of the faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, tried to solve this problem using a bicycle pump and aquarium pump.
With the read out of four quantum bits on a diamond chip, Dr Ronald Hanson (AS) believes he and his colleagues have jumped a key hurdle in the development of a quantum computer. Their findings were published last week in Nature online.
