Imported LNG gas will cause severe problems for Dutch industry and households, the NRC Handelsblad newspaper stated earlier this month.
Boredom among pigs in overcrowded piggeries quickly leads to tail biting, fights and injuries. A toy for pigs, designed by Beatrijs Voorneman, may offer some distraction. “The pigs destroy everything.”
Engineers like to tinker with fancy devices. Yet some are specialised in taking stuff apart. Part two in a series about demolishers and recyclers: Glare.
Nasa’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-sized planet candidates, and the first candidates in a habitable zone, or so New Scientist and Nature
magazines reported last week.
Name: Chris Davis (31)
Nationality: US citizen
Supervisor: Professor Gerard Dijkema (faculty of Technology, Policy and Management)
Subject: Examining ways to enable diverse researchers to better understand complex systems spanning many knowledge domains.
“One of my students made the photo,” says Dr Jeroen Breukels (Aerospace Engineering). “Or perhaps I did, during one of the test flights of the kiteplane.
Hermetic space
The reactor institute has put into service some new cubicles for performing experiments in oxygen-less atmospheres.
The prehistoric axes of Geistingen seem even more puzzling under the microscope, or so metal researcher Janneke
Nienhuis discovered.
Mukul Sarkar developed a CMOS image sensor that functions like the compound eye of an insect. Insects have a very blurred view of their surroundings, but their compound eyes detect movement and the polarization of light very accurately, allowing them to fly and navigate with very limited intelligence.
