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Dutch greenhouse gas emissions rose again last year, our energy supply needs to become more resilient, and in Overijssel there are already warnings of potential power outages.

When you look up at the sky at night, at the endless amounts of stars and constellations, you might begin to wonder about the origins of the Universe.

Since 2020, Delft Bioengineering Institute (BEI) organizes a cross-campus call for interdisciplinary research projects in the field of bioengineering.

On 29 October 2024, the Valencia region was flooded after extremely heavy downpours. Nathalie Rombeek , a PhD candidate in flood forecasting at TU Delft, reconstructed the cause of these devastating floods.

As world leaders gather in Brazil for COP30, adaptation to climate change is one of the most pressing issues on the global agenda.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Synergy Grants. Three researchers involved in the successful applications are employed at TU Delft.

NWO has awarded 149 researchers a Vidi grant. Sixteen promising TU Delft researchers from the domains Exact and Natural Sciences (ENS), Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Applied and Technical Sciences (ATS) have been awarded.

Is life possible - or has it ever been possible - on other planets? The (Origin of) Life Marker Chip (LMC ) seeks the answer.

Researchers at TU Delft and National University of Singapore have brought batteries to a next level by designing devices based on water which can be applied as practical, sustainable, and scalable high-rate energy storage solutions.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. Five of them are scientists from TU Delft.

An innovative backpack is helping people with the movement disorder ataxia to stand and walk more steadily, reducing their reliance on mobility aids such as walking frames.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 24 Veni grants to TU Delft scientists in the various fields (ENS, AES, SSH). Each researcher will receive a maximum of 320,000 euros. The grant is an incentive for adventurous, talented and groundbreaking researchers to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.

MSc project Supervisor #1 Supervisor #2 () Student Better labs-on-chips using biobased materials Massimo Mastrangeli (EWI/ME) Baris Kumru (AE/ASM) To be recruited Exploring a new way to study effe

Using origami, scientists from TU Delft and Harvard University, have designed one of the simplest robotic mechanism capable of moving into multiple directions by using only one actuator.

Can rainbows be found in space? TU Delft student Niels Rubbrecht explored this question in his Master-s thesis and observed parallel, colour-varying stripes completely unlike the optical phenomena typically seen on Earth.

AeroDelft, a fully student-run and student-owned non-profit foundation based in Delft, has become the first student team in the world to design, build, and test an electric aircraft propulsion system (powertrain) using liquid hydrogen as its energy source.

A team of scientists and students from TU Delft has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera.

The brand-new facility FRESH-UP (Fission product REmoval from Salts at High temperatures - Ultrafine Particles) is used to study the removal of solid fission products from molten salt reactors.