The E-LoDi project, a collaboration between the Lille University Hospital CHU, and the University of Lille, aims to disrupt the field of hospital pharmacies by combining healthcare and engineering expertise. E-LoDi focuses on developing innovative solutions to address medical issues…
This day will be no different; it won’t be long before an end comes to the peace and quiet in the kitchen at the Brightlands campus in Venlo. Soon dozens of children donning chef hats and cheerful aprons will be…
Legal experts are exploring the possibility of charging major oil companies with climate homicide, as their actions have contributed to thousands of climate change-related deaths. The paper, entitled “Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths“, is published in Harvard…
The H2Accelerate collaboration has announced an ambitious plan to deploy 150 fuel cell trucks across Europe with the aim of decarbonizing long-haul goods transport using hydrogen. Is this really ambitious, or is it just a small step in the wrong…
Professor Jason Hickel, a leading advocate of “degrowth“, recently confronted the Dutch House of Representatives with the myth of green growth. Economic growth always turns out to cause more energy and resource consumption. According to Hickel, the world and the…
In our Sunday newsletter, we, as editors, look back on the past seven days. We do this on the initiative of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from there. To discover…
I think it’s similar in the horticultural sector to other sectors; for years, it has been claimed that “data is the new gold”. I recently read an article that made the analogy to the gold rush of 1848. Gold had…
Intel founder Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94. The American pioneered the computer chip and microprocessor, making him one of the driving forces behind the digital revolution in the second half of the last century. Gordon Moore,…
The Einstein Telescope (ET) project might be split into two parts, one built in the south of the Netherlands and one in Sardinia, Italy. As researchers are primarily focusing on constructing a single site, they are also considering dividing the…
What if your heart rate could be monitored from relatively afar? Would it not be better if hospitalized patients didn’t have loads of vitals-checking machinery attached to their bodies? This is possible with a new light sensor that scientists at…