Poland is making progress in developing its own national electric car brand. This was evident during a presentation this week of the Izera concept car. The aim is for the car to be brought on the market in 2023 in…
Professor Margit Laimer has succeeded for the first time in making a 32,000-year-old plant blossom in vitro. It is the oldest plant that has ever been recultivated. The plant cells survived in the earth of Arctic silica in the Siberian…
Our skin and our body can repair a lot of damage itself through our innate self-healing abilities. A skinned knee, a cut on your finger, or a sprained ankle are not grounds for consulting a doctor. After a few days,…
Even after more than half a year, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. Although we now know to a large extent how it spreads and what it can do…
The corona crisis has thrown working from home into overdrive. Where previously employers were a bit reluctant to accept this idea, the pandemic has proven that this way of working actually works fine and that their employees also appreciaite it.…
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…
If you were to plant greenery on all of the city’s flat roofs, you would be able to look out onto a maze of aerial gardens right from your apartment in one of Rotterdam’s many residential tower blocks. That was…
Endoscopies, as in a gastroscopy or colonoscopy, produce images from the inside of the body. However, the instruments that make such images possible are usually at least as thick as a fingertip. This means that it is impossible to look…
The Dutch LeydenJar company has found a way to increase the current battery capacity by as much as 70 %. How did the company manage to do this? And where is battery technology headed? Innovation Origins takes a closer look…
In the long term, hydrogen has the potential to replace petrol and diesel as fuel for vehicles. It can also be mixed with natural gas and used in existing gas-fired power plants to generate energy. Or it can be used…