Power determines what is going to happen in the world in the short time, the scientific reasoning on the long term.
‘A History of Quay Walls.
“Li Bai is a poet who lived during Tang Dynasty in the 8th century AD. I love his poems. Longing for a free and easy life, Li made his home wherever he was.
What should the dairy industry do with the huge amounts of milk fat surplus it is stuck with? TU Delft researcher, Dr Marta Lubary, says some of this fat can be turned into aromatic substances.
An aging population and people’s increasing assertiveness challenges healthcare workers, researchers and industry.
“What is it you want?”, asks Medical Delta Café’s discussion leader, leaning towards Dr Frans Vos, of the Quantitative Imaging department (Applied Sciences), to see what’s written on his jacket sticker.
The imprint of the sieve in traditionally manufactured paper may be used to verify the authenticity of a work of art.
How to establish if the print of an etching by Rembrandt dates from say 1640, during his lifetime, or from hundred years later, if, as is the case for most of his prints, the paper doesn’t carry a watermark? A new technology presented this week in a PhD thesis by Mark van Staalduinen offers an alternative identification method for handmade or ‘laid’ paper.
Name: Agata Šakic (25)
Nationality: Croatian
Supervisor: Professor Lis Nanver (Delft Institute of Microsystems and Nanoelectronics (Dimes), faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Subject: On-chip electronics for silicon charged particles detectors.
TU scientists are ecstatic that TU Delft honorary doctor, Andre Geim, and Konstantin Novoselov (University of Manchester), have won the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of graphene. Both scientists have close ties to TU Delft.
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas years later? What for instance has happened to the Water Pyramid?
As complete genomes are sequenced and data pile up, more than ever before science needs bioinformatics engineers and their sophisticated software to make sense out of the myriads of chemical cascades in cells.
