Latest News Open menu Search 869 results rss Open menu 17 August 2018 First large-scale market analysis of underground cybercrime economy Cybercrime is easier to carry out as more and more online criminal services (commodities) become available. TU Delft researcher Rolf van Wegberg investigated the extent and growth of this specific online underground economy. Read more 16 August 2018 Two million registrations for TU Delft MOOCs TU Delft recorded its two-millionth registration for its free online courses (MOOCs). TU Delft now offers a range consisting of 88 MOOCs. Solar Energy was the first and has so far had 206,000 registrations. Read more 06 August 2018 Students from Delft and Amsterdam testing high-tech bicycle on F-16 runway The Human Power Team, a student project of the TU Delft and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, tested on Sunday 5 August their new aerodynamic bicycle: the VeloX 8. Read more 30 July 2018 Scientists to help Twitter gain insight into quality of online discussions An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Leiden University, Syracuse University, Bocconi University and Delft University of Technology has obtained a grant from Twitter to research and develop tools to help identify behaviors that threaten the quality of the discussions on that social media platform. In the team, TU Delft researcher Nava Tintarev (Delft University of Technology) will assess the presence of echo chambers. Read more 27 July 2018 ERC Starting Grants for seven TU Delft researchers The European Research Council has awarded ERC Starting Grants to seven TU Delft researchers. The grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work. Read more 26 July 2018 Launch of TU Delft Student Rocket Fails On Thursday 26 July at 03:30 AM, students from the Delft University of Technology, made an attempt with a home-built rocket (Stratos III) to beat the European altitude record and reach the threshold of space. Twenty seconds after the launch the rocket disintegrated above the safety zone at sea. The team and INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial) are currently investigating the anomaly and the cause of the failed attempt. Read more 23 July 2018 TU Delft students second in Hyperloop Pod Competition On Sunday 22 July, four student teams took on a challenge to race as fast as possible through a 1.2-kilometre Hyperloop test tunnel at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The team from Delft achieved a speed of 142 km/h, putting them in second place behind the WARR Hyperloop team from Munich University of Technology. Read more 22 July 2018 Delft Hyperloop in final of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition On Sunday 22 July, the Delft Hyperloop student team from TU Delft competes in the final of the Hyperloop Pod Competition at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. During the final, four student teams take on the challenge of racing through a 1.2-kilometre test tunnel, built by SpaceX in 2016. The Hyperloop is a super-high-speed futuristic mode of transport, conceived by Elon Musk. Read more 20 July 2018 Uncovering the interplay between two famous quantum effects The Casimir force and superconductivity are two well-known quantum effects. Separately, these phenomena have been thoroughly studied. Read more 16 July 2018 Seven Veni’s for TU Delft researchers NWO has announced the Veni recipients for 2018. Amongst them are seven scientists from Delft University of Technology. Read more ... Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 You are on page 78 Page 79 Page 80 ... For journalists Looking for an expert? Please contact our press officers. At TU Delft we are always willing to help journalists. Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page