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Measuring plant thirst
Researcher Susan Steele-Dunne (39) received a Vidi grant last year for her work on mapping the water requirements of crops and other plants…
Towards an effective reduction of arsenic levels in drinking water
Arsenic, an element which occurs naturally in the environment, is present in the soil and groundwater of several areas in the Netherlands.…
Leapfrogging towards sustainable palm oil
With palm oil being the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, the industry is likely to stay with us for the foreseeable future,…
Pieter Kruit et al published paper on "Reducing the Magnetic Fields around DC Light Rail Systems"
DC electrified light rail or tram systems cause low frequency magnetic fields that may disturb scientific and medical instruments in their…
Paul Urbach and Zheng Xi published paper on resolution with far field optics in Photonics Magazine
It is common knowledge in optics that, when only tar fields are measured, there is a fundamental limit to the resolution given by the…
Jean-Louis Cohen
From September 2020 to January 2021, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment welcomes Jean-Louis Cohen as Visiting Professor.…
Respectful redesign is a true craft
To maintain and keep a building in use, interventions are required at certain moments in time. It is usually up to an architect to consider…
New software brings quantum network design to users around the world
NetSquid, a specialized simulator for quantum networks has been made freely available for non-commercial users. In development by QuTech…
Leon van der Graaff and Sjoerd Stallinga have published a paper on Computational imaging modalities for multi-focal whole-slide imaging systems in Applied Optics
This research was carried out in cooperation with pathologists from Erasmus MC and Leiden University MC, and reports on new ways to image…
Help from an unexpected quarter: geosciences data techniques can help predict corona spread
An international team of scientists is studying the possibility of using data assimilation, a data technique from geosciences, to predict…