Solar Team Eindhoven – a TU Eindhoven student team – is building a solar-powered off-road car this year. It is the first time the students build a robust car that can perform outside paved roads. The Stella Terra is, as far…
Have you ever written a review or simply rated a movie online? Favoree, a Paris-based and recently launched start-up, lets you do that with YouTube videos. There is an enormous amount of content on YouTube. According to Statista, as of…
Northern Europe has a food security problem, especially in the protein-rich crops department. Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge believe that Spirulina, a blue-green algae high in nutrients, could help mending the issue. In this, Iceland has a potential…
Premature babies in incubators, COPD patients, and people with acute lung disease in the ICU. All of them suffer from hypercapnia: elevated CO2 levels in the blood. When a patient has breathing difficulties, you tend to think fairly soon of…
It was expected for a while, but now it is official: the Dutch cabinet is imposing new restrictions on ASML‘s export of chip machines to China. Minister Schreinemacher for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation announced the decision today. In doing…
When you’re blind, it’s hard to use your smartphone. Fortunately, Hable One has a solution for that. They developed a small smartphone keyboard with various functions for the blind and visually impaired. In this episode of Start-up of the day,…
Every day, people risk their lives to enter dangerous, confined spaces to carry out their daily work. Not only can this be hazardous but also potentially fatal. Sometimes, rather than risking somebody’s life, we could use a tiny robot to…
Nowadays, you must wait months or even years for a newly built home. The construction process does not always proceed as efficiently as it should, materials are lost due to mistakes and the choices are limited. Meanwhile, the housing shortage…
Being the CEO of a healthcare start-up, what motivates Paolo Ariano the most is patients’ reaction to his company’s innovation, even more so when unexpected. “I recently met a patient who, telling me his story, stressed how the stroke impacted…
Bacteria communication has always been somewhat of a grey area in the scientific community. Now, a new optical tool will help scientists understand bacterial electrical signalling far better than ever before. The device opens new insights into antimicrobial resistance, pharmaceutical…