Saudi Arabia, a leading oil producer, is making significant strides in shifting towards renewable energy. The country’s largest solar project, located in Shuaiba, has secured $1.63 billion in financing from the National Development Fund, making it one of the world’s…
Remora Robotics, a Norwegian start-up in the aquaculture industry, has successfully secured a significant investment of €2.5 million by Grieg Kapital and Momentum Invest. The funding will fuel the rollout and enhancement of their autonomous net cleaning technology, a game-changing…
An international team, led by researchers at Imperial College London, has developed and validated a diagnostic approach capable of simultaneously detecting and distinguishing between 18 infectious or inflammatory diseases – including group B Streptococcus (GBS), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and…
University Racing Eindhoven (URE) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, making it the oldest student team at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In honor of this anniversary, the team unveiled their fastest and lightest race car to date earlier this summer:…
How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? A more erratic sleep for deciduous trees than previously thought is discovered. A new study by Romain Garrigues and co-authors showed that while the absence of winter cold can keep trees asleep longer, autumn…
Moral envy, a sentiment of resentment towards those perceived as morally superior, has the potential to impede innovation and obstruct societal progress. This emotion, extensively examined by anthropologist and author David Graeber, often emerges when individuals witness others receiving acclaim…
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. So far, we…
A ban on using apps to collect data to personalize advertising would significantly reduce the spectrum of available apps and the number of updates, according to a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) based on the ban concerning…
What we are really missing at the moment is the grower’s ‘green’ knowledge. How do you put all the knowledge from the grower’s head into a model? If you ask growers why they make certain decisions, they cannot always put…
Autonomous taxi and bus services in California face significant hurdles only a week after receiving approval to operate 24 A driverless Cruise taxi collided with a fire truck in San Francisco, prompting the company to slash its fleet in half…