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Science 22 mei 2012

Microscopic construction workers

Microscopic construction workers Ecuadorian peasants may soon get help from billions of microscopic construction workers, as TU Delft researchers plan to repair their leaking irrigation canals with limestone producing bacteria.
Science 22 mei 2012

Sharpest view on magnetics

Sharpest view on magnetics Terahertz researchers have developed a way to picture magnetic fields in 10-micron resolution. "It's a world's first,” says Dr Aurèle Adam.

Science 15 mei 2012

'Life engineering needs technology base'

'Life engineering needs technology base' The new field of synthetic biology sits in between huge promises of 21st century sustainable production of food, fuels & materials versus tinkered solutions. “We need to develop technology standards.”
Opinion please 10 mei 2012

Solar boat around the world

Solar boat around the world September 2010 a Swiss electrical engineer left Monaco to travel around the world for the first time ever with a solar boat. Last week he completed his journey.

Science 10 mei 2012

Clinical trial holmium therapy was successful

Clinical trial holmium therapy was successful Terminal liver cancer patients have received an experimental radiotherapy involving highly radioactive microspheres at the Utrecht Medical Centre. At sufficient doses, the liver tumors were eradicated while side effects proved minimal.
Science 10 mei 2012

Autonomous and wireless Smart lollipop

Autonomous and wireless Smart lollipop An invention by Mina Danesh brings the use of autonomous wireless transmitters a step closer. For her dissertation, she built an antenna incorporated into a solar cell of a small autonomous wireless system for the first time.

Proposition 10 mei 2012

Proposition - Delta 14

Proposition - Delta 14 Using UV absorbance spectroscopy to analyze the thermal hydrolysis kinetics of a UV labile compound seems impractical. ‘Multicomponent and dissipative self-assembly approaches: towards functional materials’, PhD-thesis by Job ...
Short news 10 mei 2012

Short news science - Delta 14

Inventor award Professor Biotechnology Mark van Loosdrecht and his colleagues, Merle Krista de Kreuk and Joseph Heijnen, are nominated for the European inventor award. The team is one of three nominees in the award’s research ...

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