Which molecules chemically determine the taste of food? Useful to know in the food industry if, instead of trying things out every time, you want to know exactly what composition of ingredients leads to a certain taste. Carmen Diez Simon…
Troll armies are more active than ever on the Internet. These are accounts that spread disinformation in an automated way, frequently containing disinformation. Robert van der Noordaa and Richard Odekerken, founders of Trollrensics, specialize in the dismantlement of disinformation and…
As a boy, Leon Lauwers loved tinkering behind the lathe in his father’s shed. He is fascinated by engineering and his final paper for the MTS is about the limitations of the transmission system in his father’s Massey-Ferguson tractor. Even…
It’s so much fun like old times again,” Ingelou Stol makes her entrance into the room during the Fe+male Tech Heroes dinner. Together with Hilde de Vocht, Stol welcomes the one hundred guests, mostly women. They are all given the…
Guben and Gubin are two towns on opposite sides of the River Neiße. One town is in Germany, the other in Poland. Until now, the border town has been known mainly for its ‘Polish Market’ where Germans can fill up…
Real innovation, they say, often starts with a social problem. Mart Veldhuis, student at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), noticed before he graduated how high his student debt had risen. It made him – like many of his…
Tech expert Jarno Duursma sees both advantages and disadvantages when it comes to using AI in healthcare. First the advantages: Scientists at Life Lines, a large-scale study into the onset of chronic diseases among 165 thousand people in the northern…
When I first heard of Tesla, it was in the context of the “crazy idea” of building an electric car with thousands of laptop batteries. In those days, the only known electric vehicles were forklifts or golf caddies. The first…
We are using batteries more and more. In our own home, we use an average of 113 per year. There is also a growing demand for electric cars and bicycles. What’s more, industry needs batteries in order to become electrified.…
Reducing the mortality rate of premature babies by giving them supplementary nutrition based on human milk protein instead of animal protein. That is the future, according to Swiss company Babylat. CEO Zina Yudina explains how she plans to put this…