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The junkyard above your head

Leaving the atmosphere in a rocket is like playing a game of Russian roulette. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it through all the space debris in once piece, but there’s an increasing risk of a fatal collision with a hypervelocity impact. Fortunately, we now have a code of conduct.

‘It’s madness not to be working on energy-neutral buildings’

In the Netherlands, Amsterdam is taking the lead when it comes to improving urban sustainability. The city aims to be CO2-neutral by 2040. Andy van den Dobbelsteen heads up the research group that is charting the course for this mammoth task.

‘Doing something for someone else is actually dead cool’

Following a long career, much of which was spent at McKinsey, Mickey Huibregtsen is now concentrating on social issues and transferring his knowledge and experience to future generations.

Can algae save airplanes from rusting apart?

TU Delft researchers are developing new coatings with unicellular algae, that may prevent corrosion in aluminium airplane structures.

Huge machine seduces stubborn atoms to crystallise

It takes impressive and expensive machinery to control processes at the nanoscale. For the fabrication of semiconductor nanowires at Microsoft Quantum Lab Delft, Microsoft invested millions in the MBE (Molecular Beam Epitaxy) machine. It is located in one of the clean rooms of the Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory.

The firm: Suit-case

Tomas te Velde never imagined that a year on the board of competition sailing association DSWZ Broach would lead to running his own business. Yet that is exactly what he is now doing with strategic consultancy firm Suit-case, together with fellow board members Daan de Wit, Marc Bolier and Bern Laninga.

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