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More than 43 million people worldwide are blind. In the past 30 years, that number has increased by roughly 50 percent. Most blind people are born with normal vision and lose their sight over time, due to medical causes or an accident.…

Patients with a rare disease share the same entitlement to medicines as everyone else. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry is not keen on developing these ‘orphan drugs’. Their reasons are usually economic. IE&IS doctoral…

Together with Philips and the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, TU/e has started a study on the use of smart plasters in the nursing ward. The researchers are looking at whether this innovative tool will allow nurses to spend less time on…

Summa College, Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Eindhoven University of Technology will host Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf for a working visit on Monday, February 13. The three knowledge…

The majority of our sewer pipes were constructed just after World War II. As their average lifespan is around eighty years, the end is in sight for these pipes. Capacity is insufficient to replace the entire sewer network, but this may…

Her Majesty Queen Máxima will pay a working visit to the TU/e on Thursday afternoon, February 16. The central topic is TU/e research on photonics, which takes place within the Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute (EHCI).The visit will take…

Researchers and engineers from QuTech and Eindhoven University of Technology have created Majorana particles and measured their properties with great control. These Majoranas are so-called ‘poor man's Majoranas’, based on two quantum dots…

On average we open seven packaged items per day, most of them food items. All of this together makes for a mountain of plastic. But more and more often our tomatoes, apples and cookies are packaged in cardboard. To help speed up the…

On Thursday, January 26, King Willem-Alexander opened ELEO’s new battery production plant on the Automotive Campus in Helmond. With the opening of the plant, the TU/e startup is increasing its battery production capacity tenfold. The…

Silvia Lenaerts will be the new rector magnificus of Eindhoven University of Technology. She is currently a professor and the vice-rector of Valorization & Development at the University of Antwerp. On May 11, the current TU/e rector,…