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Drone wobbles like an insect     With sensors switched on, a drone hangs perfectly still in the lab. But switch them off and let the drone orient itself visually and it starts wobbling like an insect in front of a flower. This fine study by researchers at the TU Delft MAV (micro air vehicles)…

Professor participates in fencing championship   Professor Pavol Bauer in Zadar. (Photo: private collection) Terug naar Nederlands   In everyday life, Professor Pavol Bauer heads the energy storage and conversion group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. But last week, Bauer spent in a…

Mud plus dung makes eco house     If you want to build affordable, durable and desirable houses, consider mixing clay or mud with dung to use as a building material, says Dr Yask Kulshreshtha. He defended his PhD thesis on Thursday, 6 October 2022.   “People here tend to think that earthen houses are…

Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum computers research     The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to research on quantum mechanics, which is believed will lead to the advent of quantum computers. The laureates are Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger. The three scientists build on the work of John…

Partial TU Delft solar cell most efficient     Researchers from TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, TNO and semiconductor specialist Imec raised eyebrows at the WCPRC-8 world solar conference in Milan. United in the Dutch Solliance partnership, they presented a hybrid solar cell with a record efficiency of 30%.   The solar cell is composed of…