Add some great experience to your CV and make new professional and creative connections as a volunteer at Music Tech Fest at KTH, from September 3-9. You’ll get free access to this prestigious international festival, meet fascinating people and participate in innovation and research labs. Not only that, but volunteers experience the behind-the-scenes excitement of … Continue reading “Student volunteers needed for Music Tech Fest Stockholm at KTH”
What if you could go back in time and see exactly what would have happened if only you had done things differently? That’s what researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm did with three actual bike crashes in which the riders wore no helmets. This squirm-inducing video shows the impact on an adult male’s … Continue reading “Rewinding a bike crash shows how helmets protect”
KTH researchers recently developed a method of using wood cellulose to create a material similar to Styrofoam. The product is patented under the name Cellufoam. So, why is this good news? Well, aside from it being an egregious waste of petroleum (this stuff isn’t going to last forever), polystyrene foam is just an awful material … Continue reading “Six reasons why foam packaging from biomass should replace Styrofoam”
They look like the kind of winged contraptions imagined by animation film director Hayao Miyazaki, but these experimental generators could represent the next wave in renewable energy. With what amounts to one of the biggest-ever European investments in ocean energy, the first commercial scale underwater “kite” power plant is being built off the coast of Holyhead, … Continue reading “Underwater kites could be next wave in clean energy”
There might not be an astronaut wedding this year, but the annual Association of Space Explorers XXVIII Planetary Congress at KTH Royal Institute of Technology will nevertheless be something truly unique. The conference of 100 astronauts will be hosted for two days at KTH, September 21 and 22, during which there will be a grand inaugural … Continue reading “Why the astronauts are landing in Sweden”
