Thanks to an emergency European regulation that is set to take effect this month, it will be easier to install more renewable power plants more quickly. Renewable energy projects will be given the status of “overriding public interest.” As a…
Medication is essential when you have rheumatoid arthritis. “In the past, your foreland was a wheelchair, which was difficult to control. But today, the quality of life has increased tremendously,” says Karen Bevers, a rheumatologist and medical manager of the…
Elon Musk. Almost no personality of recent times has been more controversial. Some believe the entrepreneur is capable of doing anything, even walking on water, while others think he is just a show-off who revels in his capitalist hobby of…
The earth has amassed a lot of solar energy from the past in the form of fossil fuels (solar stocks). Over the space of 100 years, we have plundered these solar stocks by consuming far more energy than we can…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening doors to new forms of art. Whether a painting is created with a paintbrush and paint or with a keyboard and a mouse, the essence remains the same. Art continues to be something that is…
Do you know what healthy cooking truly means? Maybe not. And maybe that’s why we make tiny mistakes every day which affect our health. We sometimes pick up fast food or processed foods just to save time and energy. Two…
A professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the most prestigious technical universities in the world, and director of the Precision Motion Control Laboratory, David Trumper has an impressive resume. The scientist is specialized…
Michiel Roelofs and Rein Westerdijk are the founders of Taylor – a high-tech company that works on optimizing the efficiency of solar systems. Via Innovation Space – the expertise center of the TU/e that links scientific knowledge to start-ups and…
Making specialized medical procedures possible anywhere in the world – that is what Christoff Heunis wants to accomplish with his start-up Flux Robotics. During his doctoral research, he developed a system that allows surgeons to place a cardiac catheter with…
People on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao may be taking electric planes to hop from island to island in the near future. Aruba is hosting demonstration flights this week by the Pipistrel Velis Electro, Royal NLR’s electrically powered research aircraft. “We’re going…