One of the best books that I have read over the past year was all about writing in a notebook. It fascinated me how the author, Ryder Carroll, could write 296 pages straight on how to write in a notebook.…
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) can be used to generate brain organoids that have an ocular structure. Organoids are fragments of organ tissue grown from stem cells. 3D human brain organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells present unprecedented opportunities…
A lot of smart city applications collect unnecessary data and in doing so infringe on the freedoms of citizens. This is the opinion of the Dutch Data Protection Authority after carrying out research among twelve municipalities. “Getting citizens on board…
It must come as a surprise: Environmentally-minded Sweden has the most unused cell phones per capita. Every Swede statistically owns 1.31 cell phones that their fellow citizen Greta Thunberg does not use at all. That is the highest number to…
The Dutch government has great ambitions for hydrogen. The National Hydrogen Program demonstrates that the government wants to go all-out for hydrogen as the energy system of the future. But how is our hydrogen society and economy faring? In the…
From everyday life, we are familiar with three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But In quantum physics, some substances are both solid and liquid. Researchers speak of supersolids. Their existence was predicted as early as the 1950s. But…
More and more Dutch people are choosing to drive electric which means a dependable ecosystem of charging stations is therefore indispensable. The start-up Evoltify, based in the north of the Netherlands, is developing mobile charging stations. Using an app, the…
A research team led by Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer, who holds the Chair of Polymer Chemistry at Chemnitz University of Technology, and PD Dr. Michael Walter, project leader in the Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) excellence cluster at…
You hear many people say it when it comes to privacy: “They can know everything about me, I have nothing to hide”. I’m waiting for a TV format in which the people who are the loudest about this are the…
Semiconductors dominate our everyday lives. They form the basis for electronics in computers and cell phones and contribute significantly to optoelectronics through lasers and light-emitting diodes. A decisive factor for the use of semiconductors is the possibility of limiting their…