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The Future Ground: Planning cities for an uncertain future

It is estimated that some 5.5 billion people will live in highly vulnerable climate regions by 2050. However, cities are grappling with ways to think and plan for a resilient future. To become resilient to extreme climate disruptions such as flooding and droughts, cities must transform long-term urban planning. With her advisors, Dr Nazli Aydin and Prof. Tina Comes, PhD candidate Supriya Krishnan is developing "The Future Ground": a methodology for long-term urban planning under climate change.

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Revolutionary simulation model prevents disasters in space

Over six million kilogrammes of space debris are circling around the Earth at tremendous speed and is posing a danger to the functioning of satellites and thus to things like our data traffic. Mireia Leon Dasi designed a revolutionary simulation model to very precisely predict, and hence prevent, crashes of space debris. This earned her the title of Best Graduate 2022 at the Faculty Aerospace Engineering. Using the NWO subsidy granted to her start-up, she is now further developing her idea for use in practice.

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Rekenen aan gigantische aspluimen

The Filipino volcano Taal is restless and spitting lava, ash and steam into the air. Volcanologists fear that a new and bigger eruption is imminent. Ten years ago, Europe was under the spell of an enormous ash cloud, following the eruption on the Eyjafjalla Glacier in Iceland. The cloud brought air traffic to a complete standstill and entailed significant costs. Guangliang Fu and Sha Lu, researched how such an ash plume behaves and how you can predict where it will go.

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The next phase in aircraft design

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Cheap and environmental friendly silicon chips printed on paper

Scientists at TU Delft have succeeded in printing a silicon chip on paper rather than on the usual plastic. It is cheaper, environment friendly and brings new applications a step closer. Such applications would include displays on a carton of milk showing the best-before date.

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Flying in a V

The lorry pulls up very slowly, en route from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering to Schiphol. The cargo on board is precious: the 3-meter-wide flying scale model of the revolutionary Flying-V aircraft. Chief engineer Malcom Brown: “The Flying V will use far less energy thanks to its aerodynamic V-shape.”

Collection Climate Action

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A golden age for earth observation

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How the shipping industry can make the festive season more sustainable

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Up in the clouds

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Using chemistry to close the CO2 cycle

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Floating homes for the Philippines

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Measuring water quality with a smartphone in Myanmar

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Not a band-aid but a feeder solution for our coasts

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Bringing silent aviation closer

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20.000 weather stations in Africa

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Mapping minerals with sensor technology

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Sustainability is a verb

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From the plane into the train

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Sand on the horizon

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The Future Ground: Planning cities for an uncertain future

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Revolutionary simulation model prevents disasters in space

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The architect as a social connector

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Out-of-bounds: an outside view of computer memory vulnerabilities

Students learn to create robots for a better future

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Putting public transport on the right track

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Even better operations with LED photoacoustic imaging

Design proposals for safer and more transparent and democratic online interactions.

Finding the best site to build more safely and cheaply

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Designing in extremes: sustainable for users, educational for students

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Mars is not a back-up option

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Climate research: the inestimable value of space

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The battery of the future is coming closer

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Staying dry thanks to government and the public

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Breaking down barriers to open science step by step

leestijd: 11 min

Educating our way to an energy transition
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InDetail: how algorithms work up to their use in society

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Precise proton therapy thanks to uncertainty algorithms

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New heat pump material to combat global warming

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Sounds good: treating depression with ultrasound
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