The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major advances in the field of vaccines. But it also spurred the development of diagnostic tools for detecting and testing infectious agents. Think of antigen and PCR testing, which have become the hallmark of…
An email from Ukraine: the project that our parent company Media 52 has been working on for several months now have run into a few delays. Our developers are at work, but are combining this with their part-time jobs for…
It was an extraordinary coincidence that, as part of a philosophy course, we were just reading a chapter of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago‘ with some students when the war in Ukraine broke out. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a Russian mathematician…
In Dutch, the catchphrase ‘Tom Poes, verzin een list‘ (Tom Puss, come up with a plan) is well known. It is a reference to the popular cartoon from the 1960s by illustrator Maarten Toonder. A fat, somewhat stupid and overly…
The German Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, recently used a term that made people sit up and take notice: “At Tesla speed.” This was not referring to a Tesla Model S Plaid that can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h…
This furnace is an important step towards the plant that CORE ultimately intends to build, says Niels Bongers, chief technology officer at CORE Chemistry, a spin-off from the CORE student team. In that factory, waste streams such as fly ash,…
Everything has to go right in the first five years for a start-up to survive. It sounds simple, yet 90 percent of start-ups fail. The research concludes 21.5 percent of start-ups fail in the first year, 30 percent in the…
The difficulties of remote work speak for themselves. The pandemic has highlighted these struggles. The work environment of many people became solitary and isolated. Many of us who have forced to sit in front of screens are now looking for…
Faster, lighter, more durable, and, at the end of the day, also much cheaper: the benefits of photonic circuits are considerable, for a wide range of applications. And the Netherlands plays an important role, globally, in the development and application…
The mist dancing above the Douro river. Cheerfully tiled (okay, along with some dilapidated) houses on either side of cobblestoned streets. A Golden Gate-like bridge connecting the city with harbor-side companies across the river. Anyone coming from a flat and…