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Delft Outlook, July 2010
“Suppose you come face to face with a distant ancestor and must fight to find out who is stronger.” This proposition is raised by evolutionary biologist Dr Bertus Beaumont, who conducts experiments with bacteria.
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– juli 10, 2010
Delft Outlook, July 2010
Professor Sander Tans had his ‘eureka moment’ soon after gaining his doctorate in 1998. At the time, he and his supervisor, Professor Cees Dekker, were writing articles for leading journals such as Science and Nature about the electric charge of carbon nanotubes.
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Delft Outlook, July 2010
If you ask Dr David Grünwald what his specialism is, he will answer, “Visualising molecules within the nucleus of a living cell.” It takes a few moments for the significance of this simple statement to sink in.
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– juli 10, 2010
Delft Outlook, July 2010
His room in the Applied Sciences faculty building is freshly painted and virtually empty. He formulates his words carefully in English with a slight French accent. Following previous appointments at the universities of Toulouse and Lausanne, Dr Christophe Danelon (33) has now arrived in Delft.
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– juli 10, 2010
A new exploration has begun. Not around the globe or towards distant galaxies, but into the living cell by way of the world’s most advanced electron microscopes. Delta met with two of the initiators of the Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN): Professors Peter Peters and Henny Zandbergen.
Interaction between proteins - Max Planck Institut of Biochemistry
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– juli 7, 2010
As four PhD. students are finishing their projects, competing materials have been tested for their suitability as a basis for quantum bits or ‘qubits’. “We don’t know what the quantum computer will look like”, says Professor Leo Kouwenhoven, “but we’re getting surer on parts of it.
Top view of cryostat - home of quantum devices tested at low temps.
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– juli 7, 2010
Delta, 17 June 2010
The Netherlands will become the first country to send emergency messages to cell phones via the cell broadcast system. This system will be introduced early next year. TU Delft researcher and psychologist, Simone Sillem (MSc), has discovered some glitches, however. Continued…
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– juni 17, 2010
Delta, 2 June 2010
Remote sensing can be used to determine how much water is needed to grow a kilo of wheat, rice, maize or cotton. Dr. Sander Zwart developed a satellite application to make agriculture deal more efficiently with water. Continued…
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– juni 2, 2010
Delta, 19 May 2010
Five to ten percent of all industrial accidents are caused by language problems, dr. Paul Lindhout states in his doctoral thesis. Low-cost measures can control the risks. Continued…
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– mei 19, 2010
Delta, 28 April 2010
The remarkable combination of silicon chips with beating heart muscle cells promises interesting applications, ranging from drug toxicity tests to self-powered implants, says professor Ronald Dekker. Continued…
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– april 28, 2010
