Amsterdam’s canals are collapsing under the weight of heavy, polluting trucks. Shipping company Zoev City, with the assistance of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), provides goods transport and waste collection services across water. It is already electric…
Apologies by the government are hot. This week, the Dutch government went through the motions again for its ill-conceived relaxation of the corona policy. Apologies for all sorts of colonial practices from the past are all the rage too. Isn’t…
RED Horizon is an extraordinary sight. With three wheels and an aerodynamic design, the cars sports a futuristic look. Normally, the Dutch student team from Twente competes in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia against other teams from all…
This week, the Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) presented what is believed to be the world’s first multiplexer whereby it is possible to create a purely optical selection and routing of signals to network nodes on a silicon chip measuring…
You can’t do without plastic, that much is clear. But it does present the world with a major problem. Plastics are hardly degradable and remain in the environment for centuries. Researchers and politicians now agree that recycling alone cannot solve…
Cargo ships will soon be able to run completely on green energy by using ammonia instead of heavy fuel oil. All it takes is a few adjustments to the engine. Scientist Andrea Gruber of the Norwegian SINTEF research center has…
If it would have depended on the size of a scientist’s home country, Malta’s Prof. Joseph Borg would have never had a chance to join the researchers at the International Space Station (ISS). Lucky for him – and for diabetics…
Every year, half a million people in Europe and the United States undergo knee cartilage surgery. About eighty percent of the cases involve post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis develops slowly after the cartilage in the knee has been injured due to an…
We can smell a gas leak somewhere, but finding out where it is is a different matter altogether. Especially if it involves a large building or an industrial site, for example. Researchers from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, the…
For people with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or multiple sclerosis, it is often difficult to build up protection after vaccinations. The reason is that the cells of the immune system required for this purpose function less well or…