Het tijdschrift De Ingenieur heeft deze maand een uitgebreid artikel over de toekomst van mobiliteit. De oriëntatie is breed, de analyses zijn helder, maar de uitkomst blijft ongewis.
What do Picasso, Mondriaan and Jackson Pollock have in common? They used white paint, titanium white, that may crumble under the influence of UV light. Dr Birgit van Driel recommends appropriate shielding of vulnerable paintings.
‘Pretty good’ is not good enough. The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software package that provides end-to-end encryption for emails has been found to be vulnerable. However, according to Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP and cryptography teacher for the Cyber Security master at TU Delft, we shouldn’t be alarmed – this was only an academic experiment and the problem can be fixed.
Man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma (USA) are strongly linked to the depth at which waste water from the oil and gas industry is injected into the ground, according to a recent study published in Science. One of the authors is Delft risk researcher and philosopher Roger Cooke of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.
With colleagues from France and Japan, Dr Remco Hartkamp of the Department of Process & Energy, developed a new method to analyse blood using a nanotransistor. The work was published in Nature Materials this month.
De grote hoeveelheden data in de wereld bieden ‘ongekende mogelijkheden’ voor nieuw onderzoek, maar wetenschapsgenootschap KNAW waarschuwt voor de risico’s: houd het onderzoek zuiver en bescherm persoonsgegevens.
A new study uncovers evidence that diatoms collectively respond to harsh conditions with bursts of electrical activity, somewhat like glioma cells in the brain do.
The Netherlands is already a frontrunner in aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES), but it needs to be scaled up by about a hundredfold if natural gas is to be phased out, says PhD candidate Martin Bloemendal. He devised a strategy to maximise the number of ATES installations.
Dinsdagmiddag verrichtte onderzoeksfinancier NWO de feestelijke aftrap van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda. Heel even raakten de gemoederen wat verhit, maar pas op het laatste moment.
