One of the larger hyperloop initiatives is stopping short of realizing its ambition to transport people. Virgin Hyperloop announced it was laying off half of its staff and focusing entirely on cargo transport. The costs of transporting people and goods…
You have to think about it for a moment. Paris is not the European capital of fashion, and neither is Milan. Its center is in Bologna (central Italy). In any event, the city is the main place where Pronto Moda…
Even faster than originally intended, Europe wants to switch to producing its own renewable energy. This is the response of European politics to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. European Commissioner Frans Timmermans, responsible for the climate transition is unequivocal in…
A crisis such as COVID-19 calls for robust measures. The European Commission created the Recovery and Resilience Facility, which is comprised of over € 723.8 billion in grants and loans. To claim a share of this budget, member states had…
The future of logistics, according to Apeiron Smart Systems B.V., rests with robots that work with each other. Founder Khashayar Mansourizadeh talks about this in this instalment of Start-up of the day. What does Apeiron do exactly? “Apeiron creates small…
Manufacturers who can control their machinery at the touch of a button, or have jammed equipment automatically checked by a service technician. From the factory, or remotely. It is all possible with the software packages from Epicor. Macroscoop is the…
For a long time, it was mainly used as a model system for basic research – archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. It is one of the extremophilic microorganisms that thrive in very hot, acidic conditions and can be an extremely valuable natural…
Fantastic action series graced our television screens during the awesome 1980’s and ’90’s. MacGyver was one of them. As a secret agent, MacGyver came to the rescue in the hour of need. Armed with ingenuity, a knowledge of physics and…
Aside from the grenades, cluster bombs and cruise missiles, the media are the most important weapon in the Ukraine war. Via live streams we see how day by day, the mediagenic President Zelensky holds out longer than anyone else would…
Autonomous robots. They are driving around more and more in, for example, at the sorting centers of companies. They lift objects out of boxes, move them around and put them down again. The robots perform the heavy, sometimes monotonous tasks…