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TU Delft is expanding its space research capabilities with the launch of four new and upgraded Space Engineering laboratories.

Due to capacity problems, about 600 babies have to be moved to another Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) every year.

People with a more active amygdala (an area in the brain involved in processing information relevant to threats) are more likely to develop PTSD symptoms after experiencing trauma than people with a calmer amygdala.

Two TU/e scientists have received a prestigious Vici grant from the NWO. One for research on meaningful ways to interpret effects in psychology (Lakens) and another for the development of an optical platform for tracking weak protein interactions (Zijlstra).

The High Tech Systems Center (HTSC) recently hosted a symposium on systems engineering in conjunction with NXTGEN Hightech.

Today, Nele Albers defends her doctoral dissertation on using AI coaches to help smokers quit smoking and vaping.

Researchers at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center have removed blood clots with wireless magnetic robots.

PhD candidate Mike Pols studied perovskites, a promising material for use in solar cells. Its unique crystal structure and special properties make perovskite a promising candidate for the solar cell of the future.

Military clerics firmly believed that the War of Independence in Indonesia (1945-1949) was a battle between good and evil, in which the Dutch army fought under divine protection.

Glaciers are melting around the world. Last decade, the loss of ice in the more populated regions, such as Europe, increased at ever-faster rates.

Rianne de Heide, assistant professor at the University of Twente, has received an NWO ENW-M-2 grant of €742,708 for her project Flexible and user-adaptive statistical inference .

Therapy focused on the body and movement, known as psychomotor therapy (PMT), has been found to be beneficial for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

BMT researcher Maaike Bril studies skin cells in their dynamic environment with an adaptable hydrogel.