Inspiring Ideas

"You need to see artificial intelligence as adding to human intelligence, rather than threatening it."

Sustainable energy sources are the frontrunners in the race to secure clean energy for the future, but they have some major flaws. DIFFER PhD student Qin Ong is working on a solution.

Processing data from this ASTRON telescope will require computing clusters with the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.

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.