In normal times, this weekend, thousands of fans of electronic music would come to the former Suikerunie grounds in Groningen for Paradigm. Now that this festival is canceled due to the corona measures, this summer the Paradigm team is organizing…
Millions of kilos of plastic are floating in the seas and oceans. Various organizations are working to clean up the plastic. Large pieces are relatively easy to sieve out of the water, but with small pieces such as plastic granulate,…
About Tech2B Most people don’t realize how equipment that is capable of making everyday products is actually made. But for every part of e.g. a coffee machine or even when it comes to making a simple can that you drink…
Ships that are anchored ashore cost a lot of money. That is why maritime technical company Bakker Sliedrecht has developed a system in which a mechanic on the mainland can look aboard a ship with the aid of augmented reality…
Magnetic separation of waste based on density can now be taken to a whole new level. As researchers from the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Nijmegen have demonstrated that it is also possible to separate heavier elements this way. Consider,…
Fish farms were once considered to be one of the solutions for sustainably feeding the world. Until research showed that there was much more feed required in producing this fish than the amount of fish coming out of it. Yet…
For someone who wants everyone to switch to solar panels, Auke tweeted something quite noteworthy. He explained how we can accelerate the development of nuclear energy by designing and rigorously testing nuclear power plants in the digital world. For many…
For the first time, a new processing procedure makes it possible to convert old cotton clothing into viscose filament yarn (VFY). “Usually, cotton clothing is burned or ends up in a landfill,” says André Lehmann, scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute…
Many interesting start-ups have been presented here on IO over the past year. This is why we are reviewing a number of successful young businesses this summer. Among them is Kipster, which was voted ‘Start-up of the Week’ by the…
If the Corona crisis makes something clear to us, it is that the solutions of the past no longer work for today’s problems. But to achieve those new solutions and create real innovations that benefit society, something has to change…