For a meeting with ten people, is it better for the environment to print or not print out the meeting notes for everyone? At first, a lot of people might think that not printing them out would be a better…
Dutch Minister Jetten’s decision to run coal-fired power stations at full throttle to save gas is a wise one. It’s even wiser to drive at 100 km/h day and night. That will indeed largely compensate for the extra CO2 emissions…
Pilots in the air force often face extreme circumstances when flying. Machines such as F-35 have many sensors that can alert the pilot if something is not right. But pilots’ vitals are rarely measured. After Erik Frijters, Senior Flight Surgeon…
The bay of San Francisco was the first to witness a flying sailing boat. It was in 2013, for the 34th edition of America’s Cup – the world’s most prestigious sailing competition. The Oracle team competed with a 22-meter-long vessel,…
It was the week of the nitrogen protests. The week also of the abolition of universal abortion rights in the United States. It was the week of the possible entry of Ukraine and Moldova into “our” Union. And well, it…
The following phrase is often heard at the management table: the speck on the horizon. If you ask the average MT member to literally visualize that speck on the horizon, they usually describe an image of a horizon with a…
More and more governments and companies are leaning on artificial intelligence and algorithms to help make decisions. In the process, however, carelessness and the invasion of privacy are things that must be avoided. Recently, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded…
Fatigue is a clinically relevant form of exhaustion that is typical for certain chronic diseases. Patients suffer massively from it, but symptom management for chronic diseases such as cancer, long COVID or multiple sclerosis is difficult. Fimo Health, a Germany-based…
“Turning disabilities into new possibilities” is BionIT Labs’ tagline, an Italian start-up that developed Adam’s Hand – a fully adaptive bionic hand made of steel and techno-polymers. Instead of choosing between grip patterns, the fingers adapt themselves to the shape…
Rising global energy demand and climate change make the phase-out of fossil fuels inevitable – and current geopolitical developments call for rapid solutions. One building block still missing is methods for long-term storage of surplus renewable energy. Existing methods to…