Orange jam, orange cake, orange juice, orange jelly, orange liqueur and orange marmelade. Citrus fruits can be squeezed quite a bit, so to speak. But turning oranges into fabric is something entirely new. You shouldn’t picture jackets of orange peels…
More and more Dutch people are choosing to swap steak for salad these days. But let’s face it: humans simply like meat. An entirely new category of food is being developed from plants that feels and tastes like meat. It…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently published its Net-Zero scenario. The preconditions are that every inhabitant in the world should have affordable clean energy by 2030 and that the energy systems have zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.…
The new anticancer drug has been developed by the biopharmaceutical company Byondis from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. A recent and large study shows that their drug does exactly what it is supposed to do: It attacks cancer cells with precision. The…
As many as 60 percent of companies go bankrupt within the first six months of a cyberattack. It is therefore high time that businesses become much more aware of the risks and consequences of attacks. The CyberSecurity Noord-Nederland Program aims…
A team of researchers at Saarland University in Germany led by Martina Sester, professor of transplantation and infectious immunology, has spent the past few weeks studying the immune response of 250 people to vaccinations against COVID-19 with agents from Astrazeneca…
In the dream world of many a trend watcher, in a few years’ time only autonomous cars will be driving around, obviously never experiencing an accident again. An expensive insurance contract can then be dispensed with, because why insure what…
“Kleine Chips, die Großes leisten.” – Or in English, ‘small chips that do big things‘. That was one of the superlatives with which the German technology company Bosch went out of its way this week to underline the importance of…
More than one in one hundred children is affected by the so-called autism spectrum disorder, one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. These individuals have problems with the “theory of mind”, i.e., interacting with others and being able to recognize…
Conventional lubrication systems for high-performance transmissions are based on oil. This is problematic since no gearbox is one hundred percent leak-proof. The consequence is so-called “oil shrinkage” which leads to the gradual poisoning of water and soil. Plus, the common…