Who doesn’t love online shopping? Yet the ease of use of many online stores could be better, as sites are failing shoppers by giving them inconsistent, incomplete and inaccurate data linked to products. As a result, shoppers won’t always find…
Digital attacks on companies and institutions have become a lucrative business for criminal groups. These attacks are increasingly hitting small and medium-sized businesses. This is often a difficult situation for them, as many do not have the resources to maintain…
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, we have learned about the importance of disinfection – especially in critical environments. Akara Robotics had already seen the problem before the pandemic, as in 2019 they started working on data-driven autonomous disinfection robots. Niamh Donnelly…
“It’s going to be a very exciting week around here,” quips Dirk Jansen. As managing director at BUND NRW, the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of environmental organization Friends of the Earth, he is coordinating and organizing protests in Lützerath. In this…
To feed the world in the future, we need to find other ways to obtain sufficient protein. For example, through fermentation. That is why a new lab will soon open in Smaakpark Ede in the Netherlands, where experimentation with these…
From the curvature of cucumbers to the size of fish fingers, no aspect of life is too small or insignificant to escape the watchful gaze of Brussels. So it should come as no surprise that the EU is now turning…
Margriet van der Heijden is the endowed professor of science communication at the Faculty of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology. Van der Heijden wants to research how to make this kind of communication effective. Recent developments in society have…
Last year, the food and stimulants industry was responsible for most of the industrial waste. 8.3 million tonnes to be precise. Most of this waste was reused as fertilizer or animal feed for example. The other industrial sectors were responsible…
December was a good month for electromobility in Norway. In the flagship country of low-emission transport transition, the share of electric vehicles reached a new high in 2022. BEVs accounted for nearly 80 percent of all passenger car registrations. In…
More than one-and-a-half million Dutch people have osteoarthritis, the most common rheumatic disorder in joints. According to Reuma Nederland (the Dutch rheumatism association) that figure will be more than two million by 2040. A total of 85 percent of these…