Researchers at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) and the Helmholtz Institut Ulm in Germany have developed a lithium-metal battery with a high energy density of 560 watts per kilogram and a storage capacity of 214 milliamps per gram. The…
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help predict dementia even before the first serious symptoms start to show. This is what researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Alan Turing Institute claim in a study that was made public yesterday. As…
In a new and innovative research project, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, will develop a technology that provides us the experience of being hugged and caressed while communicating remotely. Most of us used to take it for…
Online shopping is big business: 71 percent of Dutch people order online. In almost half of the cases, it involves clothes or shoes. Ordering clothes online, however, is not without its challenges. For consumers, it is difficult to judge whether…
A team led by researchers at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna may have found a cure for corona. Two sugar-binding proteins are involved. These prevent SARS-CoV-2 variants from penetrating cells, according to…
Scientists at the Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy of Freiberg, Germany, have developed an autonomous surveying robot. It is designed to autonomously record an unknown environment and use the data to create a three-dimensional model of a deposit. Starting…
By 2050, according to the climate agreement, the vast majority of homes in the Netherlands will need to become sustainable, in other words, ‘future-proof’. Groningen wants to lead the way where sustainable energy is concerned. This is why it is…
A consortium of European truck manufacturers, Traton (Volkswagen Group, including Scania and MAN), Daimler Truck, and Volvo, recently announced that they will work together to build the necessary charging infrastructure for heavy trucks in Europe. The joint venture will start…
A new stable floor could soon minimize climate-damaging ammonia emissions in cow barns by more than 45 percent. This would be a step towards the goal of reducing emissions in agriculture by 30 percent by 2030. The Dummerstorf farm in…
Covid-19 has claimed millions of lives. The true extent of the pandemic can be seen in the so-called excess mortality, i.e., the comparison between the reported death data in 2020 and the expected deaths resulting from the pattern of the…