The world’s largest lithium producer, Albemarle, is looking for a European site to establish a processing plant. So reports the Financieel Dagblad today. The Netherlands would be a serious candidate. Building the plant would require a minimum investment of one…
The women inventor rate (WIR) in Europe lags behind other regions, with a 13% WIR in 2019 compared to 26.8% in China and 28.3% in South Korea. However, countries like Latvia (30.6%), Portugal (26.8%), Croatia (25.8%), Spain (23.2%), and Lithuania…
She never sleeps, and she doesn’t need antibiotics: the stainless steel cow from Those Vegan Cowboys. By means of a special machine and micro-organisms, the company creates plant-based cheese that has the same characteristics as the animal version. “This is…
Omkar Pimple, the founder of Myracle.io, thinks that the global education system has remained stagnant with time, leaving younger learners with a limited chance of engagement and interaction. To help young learners engage more with their education, Myracle, an XR-based education…
Exciting developments in fMRI technology are transforming the way neuroscientists study the brain. Nature writes about these developments. South Korean researchers have developed the DIANA technique, improving temporal precision and enabling millisecond-timescale tracking of brain activity, overcoming fMRI’s previous limitations…
A study published in the European Journal of Endocrinology reveals that overweight boys are at a higher risk of infertility in adulthood due to lower testicular volume. The research, conducted at the University of Catania, involved 268 children and adolescents…
Researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, King’s College London, and the University of British Columbia have developed a virtual reality (VR) system to improve remote human-vehicle interaction. The team won the Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Virtual…
MIT researchers have discovered that machine-learning models mimicking human decision-making often make harsher judgements than humans, due to being trained on the wrong data. Models should be trained on “normative data” (labelled by humans for rule defiance), but are typically…
Fred Roozeboom proudly mentions previous winners of the Gordon Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology. Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki, for example. And Morton Panish, the inventor of the solid-state laser that was needed for our…
Delta Diagnostics, a Dutch start-up in label-free, multiplexed biosensing, has secured Series A funding of €5.25 million. The round was funded by a consortium of four investors: i&i Biotech Fund, Oost NL, InnovationQuarter, and PhotonDelta. The investment aims to fuel the company’s vision of making rapid,…