Nuclear reactors that don’t melt down, even if all cooling fails, can be made. But the development of the high temperature reactor has been slowed because other types are cheaper.
In twenty years time we will drive on ammonia borane instead of gasoline, Andrew Sutton and colleagues surmised last week in Science.
Herman Koch is geniaal, dat zweer ik op het Wetboek van Strafrecht. Deze toevoeging is de ultieme garantie dat ik de waarheid spreek, want in zijn openbare openingscollege zwoor Herman Koch ook een paar maal op het Wetboek van Strafrecht. Voor wie het wellicht ontgaan is: Herman Koch is dit jaar de gastschrijver van de…
World Water Day
While children around the world were busy cleaning ditches and streams with little nets last Tuesday as part of the World Water Day events, researchers from TU Delft, Unesco-IHE and the institutes Deltares and KWR Watercycle Research Institute decided join forces and start a research platform called Delft Urban Water.
Should you happen to lose control of the wheel, chances are that soon environmental-friendly wooden traffic barriers will prevent you from having a head-on crash.
Talented TU Delft students are in great demand. Thus it was last Friday that a big IBM truck replete with waving flags was parked on campus. The company famous for building the first mainstream personal computer was trying to attract TU students.
Last week Human Power Team Delft presented its design for what is to become the fastest bicycle on Earth and beyond. “Our main advantage is the aerodynamics.”
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Name: Birgitte Louise Hansen (45)
Nationality: Danish
Supervisor: Professor Tony Fretton (Architecture)
Subject: An architectural reading of hospitals
Thesis defence: Somewhere in 2012
“Do I like the way this hospital looks? My research is not about whether a building is pretty or ugly.
