After earthquakes or gas explosions, it often takes far too long to locate and rescue buried victims. To enable rescue workers to obtain better and more accurate information from the situation on site more quickly in the future, international scientists…
Many Dutch people will be familiar with Space Expo, which attracts over 100,000 visitors in normal years. But less visible is what else happens at the Noordwijk business park where ESTEC, the technical heart of the European Space Agency, ESA…
Smart cities. This means things like urban planning, administration, energy supply, mobility, etc. are networked and work together, so to speak. Intelligent streetlights respond to movement, smart buildings help save energy, car sharing is commonplace, electricity comes from photovoltaic systems,…
Charging your electric car only once every one thousand kilometers, and in less than fifteen minutes. It seems too good to be true. Yet this is exactly what the Chinese brand Nio promises in a press release about their new…
Alarmingly, internet crimes have significantly increased in number in recent years. At some point, businesses that have been facing cyber attacks surely face financial damages. Moreover, customer’s loyalty and trust may be affected as well. Your number one priority as…
Various vaccines against the COVID-19 pathogen have been approved worldwide for a few weeks and are already being administered. However, there are some doubts as to whether these drugs are also effective against mutations. For example, all vaccines developed and…
Many people start the day with the newspaper or a news app. For others, the news moment is at a different time of day. The majority of Dutch people, 84 percent, read or watch news at least once a day,…
Attracting highly skilled foreign workers is crucial for the Brainport region in Eindhoven, Netherlands, due to the presence of large international tech companies. But recruiting international talent is one thing, retaining it is another. At the “Including you” theme day…
Will goods between Rotterdam and Amsterdam soon be transported completely emission-free in the Hyperloop? The possibility of connecting the largest urban area in the Netherlands in this way is at least currently being studied. The goal of the study by…
The commonly held idea in government is that transport by road is worse than by rail or water. However, an analysis carried out by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has shown this not to be the case.…