In Aachen, Germany, a team of scientists from the Technical University of Rhine-Westphalia are going to research whether electric trucks can be charged on the road while driving. Two coils are needed for this, just as they are for charging…
Online learning is now burgeoning because it is convenient and economical. Online degrees are for people that can’t spend all their time studying because they work at the same time. This is even a big help for professionals who want…
Recently, the Dutch National Military Museum in Soesterberg acquired an extremely rare FG42 Fallschirmjägergewehr from a confiscated illegal collection. Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by German high-tech innovative weapons that were developed during the Second…
A hospital in the province of Bergamo in Italy is putting twenty-one robots to work that process a COVID-19 swab test every 28 seconds. Every day, 5000 PCR tests are automatically processed this way. The method is fairly new. The…
The greening of the process industry is not only a vital but also a complex task. The electrification of the manufacturing processes and the transition to renewable and recyclable raw materials are making other demands on the forms of cooperation,…
An electronic power module for electric and hybrid drives made of silicon carbide (SiC). That’s the product innovation that Marelli, a multinational company specializing in the development and manufacture of car and engine components, launched last Friday. It is another…
The corona crisis is becoming more and more of a mental crisis. These were the most depressing months of the year and consequently restrictive measures have hit especially hard. Our resilience dissipated and we felt somber. Some people exploded as…
The Italian Piaggio, the Austrian KTM and Honda and Yamaha from Japan have joined forces. In a letter of intent this week, they wrote that they plan to “form a consortium for the development of exchangeable batteries (so-called ‘Swappable Batteries’)”…
With the corona pandemic, digital remote healthcare via apps, smart sensors and other forms of telemedicine has gained momentum. A lot of patients are embracing these technological advances. But what about healthcare providers? “If they don’t adopt the technology and…
You cannot see it, but all the components of your smartphone are made up of a multitude of thin layers. Take microchips, for example, which contain billions of transistors. Only very precise manufacturing techniques, such as atomic layer deposition (ALD),…