Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin’s orbital flight as the first man in space, Space Expedition Curacao opened ticket sales for suborbital flights from Curacao starting in January 2014.
In the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its reactors and China has suspended approval for all new facilities. But this reaction may be more motivated by politics than by fear of a catastrophic death toll.
“In science we want images to be sharp. For my research I worked on an optical imaging system for sharpening pictures. In daily life however distortion and blurry images are beautiful.
Name: Daniela Vaman (26)
Nationality: Romanian
Supervisor: Dr Eric Theunissen (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, telecommunications department) and Dr Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defense Academy, Den Helder).
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Today, a single designer microbe can take years to create and can cost tens of millions of euros, since each control element must be identified, characterised and tweaked in order to be reused.
With a bus full of self-built, McGyver-like equipment for giving demonstrations, Delft hydrologists have departed for Vienna. On the way back they’ll sample the Rhine.
More than half of the people who cycle to their work do so part-time, PhD student Eva Heinen discovered while researching commuters’ motivations.
Thanks to the work of dozens of research groups around the world, the deformations in Japan caused by the recent earthquake are slowly becoming clear. Professor Ramon Hanssen (Aerospace Engineering) heads one of the groups studying the situation.
In the pursuit to present and maintain Delft University of Technology as an international top university, it is crucial not to eliminate ‘stumbling courses’, but rather the ‘stumbling mentality’ of some students.
