Why is scientific research poorly reproducible? With a little support from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Netherlands Reproducibility Network was set up last week.
Fluid dynamicist Dr Koen Muller filmed fish at Blijdorp Zoo. Not for a family video, but for his PhD research. It turned out it wasn’t as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
How much fuel can a motor vessel save with wind propulsion? The self-funded interfaculty WASP research programme will find out over the next four years.
Last month outgoing Minister Dijkgraaf had a seat at the table of TU Delft staff involved in open science. It was a closed meeting but Delta spoke to the attendees afterwards.
Past cabinets have implemented few effective climate policies and this must change soon, write twelve prominent Dutch climate scientists in a letter.
To increase knowledge security, screening of researchers from outside Europe is in the making. Not a good idea, says KNAW President and TU Delft professor Marileen Dogterom.
Do you want to discuss TU Delft’s ties to the fossil fuel industry? You can do so from November onwards. The outcomes should lead to recommendations to the Executive Board.
The KNMI presented new Dutch climate scenarios on Monday. TU Delft climate scientist Herman Russchenberg and KNMI researcher Sybren Drijfhout: “Extremes determine livability.”
Five universities top up the meagre income of international scholarship PhDs. The others do little to nothing, a study shows. Of TU Delft, the latter was already known.
The Dutch Parliament wants to use money from the National Growth Fund to prevent an increase in fuel prices for motorists. That means a stop to further research by the National Education Lab AI. It will also mean less money for teacher retraining and lifelong development, among other things. That warning is given by outgoing
