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For those following the bird webcams at the Faculty of Architecture, it’s been an exciting time. When would the three eggs in the nest box hatch? This past Monday, it finally happened! Three tiny white fluff balls can briefly be seen whenever the mother leaves to grab a bite.

Have you ever wondered whether bacteria produce sound? Researchers from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering have built tiny graphene trampolines to listen to bacteria. What do these organisms sound like? And what’s the point?

It was a busy night on campus on the night of 7 to 8 April. Whilst tram 19 was making its very first test run, researcher Marco Langbroek was operating the new MISO research telescope on the roof of his Faculty of Aerospace Engineering to film the Artemis II spacecraft.

For the first time in years, people are once again on their way to the Moon. The next steps are to land and to actually start building there. However, construction is not so straightforward. Moonquakes may prove to be more disruptive than previously thought. This is evident from the research on which Anne van der Pauw graduated this week at Civil Engineering & Geosciences.

If everything goes according to plan, four astronauts will travel into space for a trip around the moon tonight at 0:24 a.m. (Netherlands time). Is this Artemis II mission the beginning of a new era in space travel? Students at Space Oasis Delft are already preparing for the next step: “I might even go to Mars myself one day.”

Queuing for Coffee Star, the food truck, or – like last week – at the polling station is, of course, never fun. Or is it? Can standing in line be fun? What does it depend on? Delta takes a closer look at standing in line.

Sea levels are not always calculated accurately, according to a major comparative study by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Deltares in Nature. In some places, sea levels are up to a metre higher than previously thought. This means that millions more people are coming into the danger zone. What went wrong? Elevation modeler Maarten Pronk explains.

On Wednesday, Geothermie Delft's geothermal power plant officially became operational. From now on, part of the campus and three DUWO student flats (Mijnbouwplein, Stieltjesweg and Michiel de Ruyterweg) are now heated with hot water from deep underground. Excavation work for the construction of a geothermal network. (Photo: Nikita Ham) "Opening a new heat source in