Quantum technology is still relatively new. It is only since the early 1990s that several research groups have been developing technology based on quantum physics – the science of the tiniest particles. “Quantum physics itself is over a hundred years…
To 3D print an end product without the customer knowing it has been 3D-printed. That is the ambition of Maarten van Dijk from AMcubator and now also from 3Dmouthguard. “Often companies use 3D printing as a selling point. It’s much…
Jifke Sol has been a lecturer at the Fontys Expertisecentrum Circulaire Transitie (Fontys Expertise Centre Circular Transition, FECT) in The Netherlands for over a year and she is still regularly taken by surprise. Especially about the rapid pace at which…
For people with medical conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or dyslexia, reading a website is not always that easy. The French company FACIL’iti has come up with a solution for this: a tool that helps this target group read online…
Should the Dutch battery-electric aviation sector ever come of age, there will undoubtedly be regular references to that meeting on Friday, November 12, at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. Initiators Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and Eindhoven Airport wanted to use…
When are we willing to share valuable items with a robot? Would we save a robot from a collision, and would we trust the robot if it had to save us? Does the robot have to look like a human…
It’s great that there are medications. But sometimes healthy food can help just as much as medicine would. Pharmacologists and nutritionists should therefore work much more closely together, says researcher Saskia Braber of Utrecht University, Netherlands. She and her team…
Concrete is one of the most important raw materials in the world. We need it for buildings, roads, tunnels and bridges. It is a cheap and strong material that has been around for a very long time. Even the Romans…
The price of natural gas has risen dramatically. What’s more, there is a lot of opposition to the unbridled growth of all kinds of renewable energy. In light of that, the debate about nuclear power is flaring up again. The…
The COVID-19 self-test is a micro-world of waste separation in itself. If you are really serious about separating waste, you might be wondering which bin you should throw away which part of the box and the test components in. It’s…