Archive
19 November 2019
Building a Mars base with bacteria
How do you make a base on Mars? Simple: you send some bacteria to the red planet and you let them mine iron.
18 November 2019
Predicting people’s driving personality
A team of researchers from MIT and TU Delft has developed a new system that sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless.
15 November 2019
How to Expand and Contract Curved Surfaces of all Shapes
Researchers at TU Delft have designed a dilation method that can be applied to any curved surface. The range of applications include medical braces for children, expandable furniture, or aortic stents.
15 November 2019
Researchers see rapidly hunting CRISPR system in action
12 November 2019
Djonno Bresser is TU Delft Best Graduate 2019
Today, at the TU Delft Best Graduate Award Ceremony 2019, eight recently graduated engineers presented their research and results of their excellent master thesis. Djonno Bresser, graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG), received the prestigious title TU Delft Best Graduate 2019.
07 November 2019
Joris Melkert voted Best Teacher at TU Delft
Joris Melkert, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (AE), has been chosen TU Delft’s Best Teacher of 2019.
07 November 2019
Opening Industrial Catalysis Lab TU Delft
On 20 November 2019, TU Delft will open the Industrial Catalysis Lab, a new high-tech facility that makes it possible to carry out experiments under high pressure and at high temperatures. The lab forms a bridge between industry and the academic world, where experiments are usually carried out under lower pressure and at lower temperatures. In this building, researchers led by a new professor will develop innovations in the field of catalysis. Catalysis is a technology that accelerates chemical reactions and that forms the basis for many of our plastics, fuels and fertilizers.
07 November 2019
TU Delft in four major new public-private research programmes
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced the new research programmes that will be part of its ‘Perspective for Top Sectors' funding programme.
31 October 2019
Swarm of tiny drones explores unknown environments
Researchers have presented a swarm of tiny drones that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves.
31 October 2019
Artificial cell division a step closer to reality
Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in replicating a biological mechanism that is essential for cell division in bacteria in the lab. The research is an important step within a larger, ambitious project with the ultimate goal of creating a fully artificial cell that can sustain and divide itself. The researchers have published their findings in Nature Communications.
21 October 2019
Neanderthal glue from the North Sea
Scientific research has revealed that a flint tool cased in a tar-like substance is actually one of the few examples of the use of glue by Neanderthals.
21 October 2019
Eight graduates nominated for TU Delft Best Graduate Award 2019
Today, 21 October 2019, Delft University Fund announced the eight TU Delft Best Graduates 2019. Each faculty has named their Best Graduate 2019, totalling a number of eight talented recently graduated engineers.
18 October 2019
4TU Impact Challenge
Teams from the four Dutch universities of technology are competing to come up with the best and most innovative ideas that contribute to resolving problems in society.
17 October 2019
The digital revolution is coming: Do IoT Fieldlab officially launched
The new Do IoT Fieldlab (Delft on the Internet of Things) was officially launched on Wednesday afternoon during a kick-off event on the TU Delft Campus.
17 October 2019
NunaX up in flames on dramatic last day of racing
Port Augusta - NunaX, the newest solar car of the Vattenfall Solar Team, was forced to retire from the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.
14 October 2019
Royal couple opens vertical wastewater treatment pilot in New Delhi
The royal couple opened a new pilot installation for the purification of contaminated wastewater in Indian drains.
14 October 2019
NunaX in second position after second day of racing
14 October 2019
TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new material without doing any experimental tests at all.
07 October 2019
TU Delft presents scale model and cabin for energy-efficient Flying-V
At the KLM Experience Days, TU Delft will be presenting the revolutionary Flying-V.
03 October 2019
Seeing, touching and documenting Dutch Master paintings
A reproduction of a painting on screen or as a poster often looks like the painting, but at the same time doesn’t come close to what the original work really looks like.
01 October 2019
Researchers from TU Delft discover real Van Gogh using artificial intelligence
What did Vincent van Gogh actually paint and draw? Paintings and drawings fade, so researchers from TU Delft are using deep learning to digitally reconstruct works of art and discover what they really looked like. ‘What we see today is not the painting or drawing as it originally was,’ says researcher Jan van der Lubbe.
25 September 2019
Pelican drone ensures super quick water sampling
This week a 'pelican drone’ from TU Delft took water samples in the new Marker Wadden nature area.
24 September 2019
'Battery research holds promises, but still has a long way to go'
Inaugaral lecture prof.dr.ir. M. Wagemaker (TNW): Recharge 25 september 2019, starts at 15:00 – Aula, TU Delft
20 September 2019
Brand new laboratory for research into sustainable electricity supply
In order to achieve the climate targets, the Netherlands needs to generate much more electricity using the sun and wind. But is our electricity network even ready for that? Unfortunately not. In order to tackle this gigantic challenge, TU Delft is currently building a brand new laboratory: the Electrical Sustainable Powerlab, aka the ESP Lab.
19 September 2019
TU Delft 37th in QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020
The QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2020 puts TU Delft 37th in the world, up from 41st position last year.
16 September 2019
The Netherlands as an international centre for Quantum Technology
State Secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology directly from Robbert Dijkgraaf this afternoon.
12 September 2019
Surgeons use octopus-based mechanism for the first time in OR
The ‘mechanical octopus’, a steerable laparoscopic instrument used for minimally invasive surgery in the abdominal cavity, has been used for the first time in an operating room.
11 September 2019
TU Delft in 67th place in THE Rankings
In the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, TU Delft has dropped nine places from last year and now shares 67th place. Since 2014, TU Delft's position in the rankings has fluctuated between 71 and 58.
11 September 2019
Growing Biotech Campus Delft with extra jobs and companies
In order to accelerate the development of Biotech Campus Delft into a hub for open innovation in industrial biotechnology, DSM, the City of Delft, TU Delft, the Province of Zuid-Holland and InnovationQuarter have signed a letter of intent
11 September 2019
Cable bacteria: Living electrical wires with record conductivity
Bacteria that power themselves using electricity and are able to send electrical currents over long distances through highly conductive power lines. It almost sounds like the way we charge our TVs and refrigerators, and may seem hard to believe, but it is a recent discovery by a team of scientists from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and the University of Hasselt (Belgium). Centimeter-long bacteria from the seafloor contain a conductive fiber network that operates in comparable way to the copper wiring that we use to transport electricity. The highly conductive fibers enable a completely new interface between biology and electronics, providing a prospect for new materials and technology.
10 September 2019
TU Delft and VU Amsterdam students break cycling world speed record with 122.12 km/h
The Human Power Team broke the women’s world speed record for cycling.
05 September 2019
Rapid snow retreat amplifies North Greenland mass loss
Researchers show a large regional difference between melt in North and South Greenland.
03 September 2019
ERC Starting Grant for five TU Delft researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded five Starting Grants to scientists from TU Delft
03 September 2019
Unpredictable training better prepares pilots for emergencies
When an emergency suddenly occurs during flight, it can be very difficult for pilots to respond correctly.
02 September 2019
Jenny Dankelman receives Professor of Excellence Award 2019
On Monday 2 September, Jenny Dankelman, Professor of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Intervention Techniques at the Faculty of 3mE, received this prestigious award.
29 August 2019
TU Delft active in three new Gravitation programmes
TU Delft is participating in three of the six new Gravitation programmes.
22 August 2019
TU Delft’s hydrogen racing car wins second place
The Forze VIII, developed by TU Delft students, was the first ever hydrogen racing car to secure a podium place in an official race this weekend.
21 August 2019
World’s first link layer protocol brings quantum internet closer to a reality
Researchers from QuTech have achieved a world’s first in quantum internet technology.
13 August 2019
Aukje Hassoldt appointed as new Dean of TPM
The Executive Board has appointed drs. Aukje Hassoldt as Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management (TPM) with effect from 1 October 2019.
05 August 2019
Dutch-Japanese astronomical instrument measures 49 shades of far-infrared
The DESHIMA instrument has passed its first practical tests when measuring the distances and ages of distant galaxies.