Space ropes and ribbons may have many applications, ranging from futuristic space-lifts to the more realistic destroyers of space debris.
Clinicians will always want to confirm a diagnosis by visual inspection.
‘Curvature Lines for Lesion Detection and Visualization in CT Colonography’, PhD-thesis by L.
Cutting wages and firing people may not be a very good idea. Or so says Giuseppe Simigliani (26), who defended his Master’s thesis on export performance and labour flexibility this week.
Existing versions of intelligent cars could halve traffic congestion levels, the experts say, and prevent 25 percent of all accidents. So what’s holding them back?
Ecorunner
The Eco-Runner Team Delft presented its hydrogen car this week during the car show at the Convention Centre Amsterdam RAI, where a car show is being held, together with a dozen other teams from the Netherlands.
Contrary to common belief the dynamic equilibrium of a bicycle does not critically depend on the gyro-effect of its wheels, nor on the trailing of its front wheel, so Delft researchers explain in Science.
If a terrain gets messy, legs are the way to go. Dr Gabriel Lopes works on a robot that gallops like a horse or crawls like a cockroach.
Algae are being put to work performing a unique double duty: cleaning up sewage waste while simultaneously producing biofuel, last week’s issue of New Scientist reports.
If given the chance, Dr Alexander Bucksch would analyse an entire forest. Five years ago he started with some apple trees, party people and women’s breasts.
For his PhD research, Dr Christos Strydis rethought the architecture for processors in biomedical implants.
Saying that they are committed to their research into neurostimulation is an understatement.
