Inspiring Ideas

It turns out that starlight holds the key to helping SRON find Earth-sized exoplanets.

Architecture can amaze and inspire us. While it is fundamentally practical and functional, it changes the way we engage with the world. It also has the potential to revitalize a community.

How can you look inside a solar cell at an atomic level? When you want to look into matter at a high resolution, neutrons could be your best bet.

According to this KTH professor, a new source of clean energy might just be under our noses--or more accurately in our ponds and lakes.

It doesn’t seem to matter how stuffed you already are, as soon as the cookies (or cupcakes or chocolates) come out, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll eat them too.

An interest in blues music sounds more like a qualification for a musician than a PhD student, but that’s how Christian O’Connell became a historian.

Bodo Bützler, a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Cologne is studying the transnational legal phenomenon of the internet, often referred to as the lex informatica.

What do bumblebees and drones have in common? Nellie Linander's PhD research at Lund University shows its more than you would think.

Mohammed Maniruzzaman wants patients to be able to take pharmaceutical manufacturing into their own hands—literally!