More than one in three elderly patients in the UK suffer “medication-related harm” after being discharged from hospital, a new study suggests. One of the authors is Prof. Tischa van der Cammen of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.
Some things are better left unsaid, argues anthropologist Nick Verouden after studying researchers in international and interdisciplinary projects. He received his doctorate on May 11.
Exobiologist Wieger Wamelink from Wageningen University has shown that growing crops on Martian soil seems possible. Now a sample of his experiments is being shown at the exhibition Food for Mars at the TU Delft Library.
Hundreds of students shuffled through a narrow corridor as a part of a crowd behaviour study last week. Researcher Dr Dorine Duives wanted to know at what point the crowd density would make the flow stop.
How do you create healthy and comfortable buildings? With that question in mind, Professor Philomena Bluyssen created the SenseLab, where she recreates the conditions that affect the indoor environment.
Transforming old office buildings into affordable and sustainable housing and workspace for starters. This is the MOR project that will represent TU Delft at the Solar Decathl
For his PhD research, electrical engineer Reto Pieren developed computer models that artificially produce the noise of trains, wind farms, and road traffic to study the impact that sound – that does not even exist yet – could have on people.
To get to the touristy Chinese island of Hainan from the mainland, you have to cross the 30 kilometre wide and 120 metre deep Qiongzhou Strait, which is not for the faint-hearted. The area is prone to strong typhoons. An underwater tunnel could be the answer, Delft researchers believe.
From an evolutionary perspective, it is like discovering a new class of mammals. TU Delft researchers found an entirely new class of archaea in a salty Siberian lake. They christened this micro-organism Methanonatronarchaeia.
