We are still largely dependent on fossil raw materials for the production of plastics, medicines and fuels. The transition to a more sustainable and circular economy is only slowly getting underway. Even replacing these fossil raw materials with natural building…
Ten years after my first experience with an electric car, I have now flown electric for the first time. The TV program EenVandaag is making a series about the year 2030 and asked me what mobility will look like by…
Cell phones, notebooks, digital cameras, cordless drills and lawn mowers – without lithium-ion batteries many things in everyday life would be almost inconceivable. Little by little, this type of energy storage has increasingly replaced the good old-fashioned nickel-cadmium battery and…
Only a few people live in the individual research stations in Antarctica, but they, too, must be supplied with energy. As a rule, this means transporting crude oil and gasoline there by ship at great expense – and high energy…
Will robots take over our work? Nonsense, says Ronald Dekker, who works as a labor economist at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). In the long term, technology could actually ensure more jobs, better working conditions and a…
Science is recording more and more successes in the fight against the corona pandemic and the COVID-19 disease triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thanks to ever greater progress in vaccination. At the same time, drugs to cure COVID-19 continue to…
The quality of computer screens has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Yet there is still scope for improvement. For example, it would be nice if they consumed less energy, if you could also easily read the screen…
In the search for sustainable, future-proof building materials, researchers Luping Tang and Emma Zhang at the Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, have made a breakthrough in the development of a prototype for a rechargeable, cement-based battery. Imagine: A dozens of…
A new study carried out by the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany) and several other international institutes may be able to help agriculture improve its CO2 balance. What the researchers have found out is that dead plant material can…
In this column, we write about our best-read story of the past week. Often these were the stories written by Jelmer Visser with his clear maps showing the number of infections per European country. Visser published his last story last…