Just by looking at seedlings, experts can predict which plant will bear the most fruit. Now their knowledge has been spelled out and put into an expert vision system for plant selection.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to IcyDip?
Climate scepticism ‘is on the rise’, the BBC reports.
The BBC says that the number of people who express scepticism about climate change is rising, owing to a series of recent scandals. Last November the contents of emails stolen from a leading climate science unit led to accusations that a number of researchers had manipulated data.
Given the right conditions, some bacteria will basically turn into ‘fat’ bags, as process technologist Katja Johnson discovered. The polymer that the microbes produce forms a resource for bioplastics.
Name: Simone Placidi (28)
Nationality: Italian
Supervisor: Professor Herman Russchenberg (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Subject: The influence of cloud droplet number concentration on climate
Thesis defence: In about two and a half years
“There is no straightforward method to measure the amount of droplets in the clouds, apart from taking an airplane and flying through them.
For those who want to tune into something more serious than music, iTunes has something new: podcasts of TU Delft lectures. Since last Tuesday, the TU is officially on iTunes U.
Discussions about the pros and cons of Apple’s latest gadget, the iPad, are raging on the internet. Is this tablet computing device revolutionary, or just a hype?
A mixture of cement, bentonite and water is pumped into the ground in Amsterdam to prevent buildings from subsiding when the North South metro line is drilled. Once drilling has started however it may still be a feat to prevent houses from sinking.
Imagine a runway at sea, a moored harbour or even a floating city. PhD student Jan van Kessel calculated a way to make mega-floaters more resilient.
