The production of meat, cheese and butter is energy-intensive and causes significantly more climate gases than the production of fruit and vegetables. In addition, agricultural land usage for animal feed is enormous. This in turn endangers biodiversity. Last but not…
Whether it concerns comparing lung photos of cancer patients or detecting fraudulent transactions, data exchange is indispensable for banks, hospitals and other institutions. The Groningen-based company Branchkey in The Netherlands provides a privacy-preserving bridge between AI models. The start-up secured…
Fueling is not what it used to be. Decades ago, a pump attendant kindly filled up your car and at the same time checked the fluids and other vital car parts. Now the car checks itself and we are allowed…
Four students from Bocconi University have founded the Italian company Glac-UP. The start-up gets people involved in covering up glaciers in the Alps during summer. It does this by raising money for buying and installing geotextile sheets. Gabriele Doppiu is…
Anyone taking a walk in the woods in Latvia in autumn is bound to bump into a lot of other hikers. Although the sparsely populated country is made up of forests that cover half of its territory and therefore the…
For elderly and disabled people, a trip to the hospital can be an insurmountable problem. The Italian Medicilio has the solution. Mattia Perroni talks to us about it. What is Medicilio? “We are an innovative start-up with a mission. The…
Iamfluidics works on the development of new types of microparticles. These very small particles are found in all products around us, from the food we eat to beauty products, and from medicines to dyes. The microparticles – which can consist…
As soon as official permission is issued, the Royal Dutch Lifeboat Society (KNRM) plans to test drones at four different locations: Lemmer, Terschelling, Katwijk/Scheveningen and Hoek van Holland Six drones have already been purchased and are ready to be deployed.…
November, rain. A cold and dark start to the day. Only eager beavers think about going to the office. Especially those who have the option of working from home huddle behind their screens in jogging outfits. It also tends to…
The first fully autonomous voyage of over 1,000 nautical miles has been successfully completed. At the end of October, the ‘tugboat’ that demonstrated the new technology safely docked in Hamburg after a thirteen-day trip around Denmark. “The tugboat was not…