In our Sunday newsletter, we, as editors, reflect on the past seven days. We do this on the initiative of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, draws a picture, and we take it from there. There has been a…
China’s semiconductor industry shifts gears in response to stringent US export controls, aiming to create a self-sufficient production landscape. The Biden administration’s measures have significantly curtailed China’s access to advanced technologies, compelling Beijing to foster domestic innovation. Leading Chinese firms…
“Greenhouse horticulture must disappear from the Netherlands.” That, at least, is the message Klaas Knot, the president of De Nederlandsche Bank, recently proclaimed in the TV program Buitenhof. According to him, greenhouse horticulture is a form of economic activity where…
One in four adults over the age of 25 will have a stroke at some point in their lives. The sooner a stroke is treated, the better the possible outcome. Consequently, the mantra from the industry is, ‘Time is brain’.…
Curtain falls: the new Eco-Runner design is here. In the auditorium of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Eco-Runner Team Delft unveiled its 2024 hydrogen car design. Although the vision remains the same – showing the world the…
Discovering and developing new materials, a room temperature superconductor, the optimal battery design: artificial intelligence is poised to take us to the places that long seemed out of reach. And maybe more important than anything else: the time needed to get…
Supplier Wilting won the first Best Knowledge Sharing Award at the Manufacturing Technology Conference. At the end of the well-attended event, Jan Jaap Kuit of ASML presented the award to Wilting’s Remco van der Loo and Remon Haarsma. The bulky…
How do we continue to protect the Netherlands from water? “With living dikes” is the answer from coastal engineer Bas Borsje. He is an associate professor at the University of Twente (UT) in charge of the Living Dikes project. Borsje…
As the world moves towards a greener future, energy storage emerges as a crucial focal point. Lead-acid batteries, once commonly used for car ignition, are reemerging with safer, more efficient designs. Alternative storage solutions are gaining momentum, offering the promise…
NASA’s GUSTO balloon mission broke previous flight duration records with a 57-day stratospheric sojourn. Launched from the icy expanses of Antarctica, the mission has successfully conducted the first comprehensive survey of cosmic elements in interstellar space, with significant contributions from…