Last Friday, the Dutch cabinet-council supported a proposal to demolish the 48-year old reactor in Petten and to have a new one built.
Despite being energy-inefficient, bulky and expensive, CO2 capture from flue gases will have to be scaled up quickly. It’s the only way to make it affordable as well as necessary, says dr. Mohammad Abu Zahra, who defended his thesis last Tuesday.
A team of TU Delft students has developed bacteria that engage in relay races. In late October, the team will present their invention during the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition, held at MIT.
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook 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 ‘Ghana Moves’, a hand-driven tricycle for disabled street vendors?
Twisters like the Torso Tower in Malmö and Blobs like the Guggenheim Museum may seem pretty extravagant, but buildings can now look much more organic, thanks to a TU Delft technique to freely curve glass.
Why should dikes and weirs always be made out of steel and concrete? Use rubber-soaked polyamide instead and save a third of the costs, argues Floris van der Ziel.
De Nobelprijs voor geneeskunde gaat dit jaar naar onderzoek aan telomeren en het enzym telomerase. Beide spelen een belangrijke rol bij veroudering.
It’s the week of the biggest awards in science: the Nobel Prizes. This year’s winners of the Nobel
Prize in Medicine and the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced last Monday and Tuesday. TU Delft scientists comment on the awards.
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