TU Delft researchers may have developed a groundbreaking dart that can significantly improve the performance of elite-level darts players. The new dart is designed using knowledge from aerodynamics and flight mechanics and aims to give players more control over their…
Disney recently was granted U.S. patent number 11,360,471 for a mobile locker system they call a Robotic Sherpa. The modular mobile lockers can autonomously move about. Customers can recall these mobile lockers to their location or designated areas within the…
For long, Tilburg University‘s campus hasn’t been an essential part of the city. In recent years, however, the university has been doing its best to become more visible. What’s in store on campus and beyond in the coming years? The…
Have you ever had such an amazing meal that afterward you felt a buzz in your head? This is the result of elevated glucose levels in your body after this. While there is no formula for how to tackle this…
The Netherlands has experienced a concerning increase in road fatalities, with 737 deaths in 2022, up 155 from the previous year. Despite its reputation as a cycling-friendly country, this rise indicates a darker reality. Martin Damen, the director of SWOV,…
Smart, sustainable, and safe: these three keywords describe how the mobility of tomorrow will – or should – look like. These same three words are the tagline of 2023’s edition of Automotive Week. The Automotive Campus Helmond, the Netherlands, officially…
To solve plastic and carbon dioxide pollution, we cannot scrub a magic lamp or deploy magic wands – neither Alexa nor Google can lend a hand yet. Science is at odds with magic, but its discoveries often have a fascinating…
Houses, bridges, and tunnels, what do they have in common? They are made – as indeed most other constructions – out of concrete. It’s a reliable and cheap-to-produce material, existing in a different version since the Romans’ age. Yearly, the…
“Only in exceptional cases, buying a used car goes smoothly. The odometer is reversed, there are scratches present that are not in the photos, that one dent is just out of the picture or the engine does not even work,”…
Spectral sensor technology company MantiSpectra has won the Hermes Award at the Hannover Messe in Germany for ChipSense – a spectral sensor on a chip. ChipSense enables the construction of new material sensors that are 1,000 times smaller and up…