Groningen has been designated as the place to test what is known as the Hyperloop: a tubular transport system in which people or goods travel at speeds of up to 700 kilometers per hour through a low-pressure environment. How are…
Laptops with built-in webcams, smartphones with cameras and voice assistants, Alexas, Siris, Google Assistants, Telekom Smart Speakers and so on, the list of technical devices that are supposed to make our lives easier and more beautiful is getting longer almost…
In the coming years, a fourth industrial revolution will cause thousands of satellites to be deployed into space. This so-called ‘Space Revolution‘ is already under way – ushering in an age where satellites fill the night sky in networks. As…
Empty runs, meaning trucks or even freight trains that return to their home base empty after delivering their cargo, account for a large proportion of all kilometers driven in freight transport. According to figures from the Federal Ministry of Transport…
The dreamscape of fully autonomous cars taking you from A to B is at the center of many a vision of the future of mobility. Having already brought the world to the electric car, Elon Musk now wants to enter…
It sounds almost like science fiction, but it is reality. With the help of very special light waves, so-called “scattering-invariant light modes,” opaque objects can be made transparent – at least for these light waves. Light normally cannot penetrate certain…
Jeroen Bertrams (46) is the author of the book ‘Start-up. Van idee tot exit’ (Start-up. From idea to exit). Bertrams worked for a consultancy firm after graduating from the Faculty of Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands). In 2006, he…
Being a medical professional is a very demanding job. Especially during recent times with the pandemic when the whole world is stricken with fear, medical professionals have stood in the front lines assisting everyone. The core of empathy these professionals…
To store energy from solar and wind power over a longer period of time, flow batteries (redox flow batteries) are promising from both an economic and an ecological point of view, according to current findings. Indeed, being able to store…
A corona infection triggers a complex response from our body causing it to develop an immunity to the virus. Simply put, two main pillars of our immune system must remember the virus. These are the antibody-producing B cells and the…