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The future of information technologies lies in quantum information technologies, which promise a big leap forward in computation and communication. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an €850,000 Open Technology Grant to a consortium that will develop central building blocks for future quantum computers. The consortium, led by UvA-physicist Peter Schall, will consist of the University of Amsterdam, TU Delft and industry partners Toyota and Quix.

Roman Barth is named member of the 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows, along with thirty-one other early-career researchers. He will use powerful deep learning-based algorithms to design new candidates for a promising, but difficult to identify, class of drugs.

At Wednesday 24th of April TU Delft hosted a meeting for Director General Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), students and others interested in the nuclear sector.

AMOLF researchers, in collaboration with Kobus Kuipers from Delft University of Technology, succeeded to bring light waves to a halt by deforming the two-dimensional photonic crystal that contains them. The researchers showed that even a subtle deformation can have a substantial effect on photons in the crystal. This resembles the effect that a magnetic field has on electrons.

Examining tissues, cells, and proteins under a microscope helps us prevent and combat diseases. To study this, we need to precisely determine the dimensions of the biological structure. However, a biological sample may appear flatter under the light microscope than it actually is. Researchers at Delft University of Technology have now demonstrated for the first time that this distortion is not constant, contrary to what many scientists have assumed for decades. The breakthrough, published in Optica, confirms a prediction by Nobel laureate Stefan Hell from the 90s. With an online calculation tool and software, every researcher can now determine the correct depth of a biological sample.

Nine young researchers compete for the best climate action & energy paper of 2023

After a record-breaking 57 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes, NASA’s balloon telescope GUSTO completed its flight above Antarctica by landing on the ice by parachute. The mission was designed to last 55 days. GUSTO has observed atomic clouds in our own galaxy and its nearest neighbor with far-infrared cameras, developed by SRON and TU Delft.

Apart from storing heritable information, DNA can fold into a key that unlocks functions in specific proteins. Such DNA keys, called ‘aptamers’, are highly sought-after as new drugs and tools in biological research. Delft researchers developed a technique to find the right DNA key between the countless different aptamers that exist. The European Research Council has now awarded their idea with a Proof-of-Concept grant.