Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Harvard have succeeded for the first time in making near-field light visible. This is light that “sticks” to surfaces. “This research opens the door to unprecedented mastery of this powerful, largely unexplored type…
Whereas last week the first traces of the approaching second corona wave became visible, the second corona wave in Europe is now unmistakable. Across the whole continent, measures have been tightened to stop the spread of COVID-19. News of rising…
According to researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), people in countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali have less to eat due to global corona measures. In all these countries, women and young people in particular are faced…
Lately, people often ask me whether it makes any sense at all in these unpredictable and turbulent times to start up a new company or take over an existing one. Both founders and their successors weigh the opportunities and risks…
Two brothers from the Dutch village of Beek en Donk were 29 and 31 years old when Corona hit them hard. At the first peek of the pandemic in the Netherlands, they were proof that COVID-19 did not only affect…
Dutch scale-up PlantLab has raised a first external investment of € 20 million from De Hoge Dennen Capital. The company has developed a globally patented technology for ‘vertical farming’, an efficient method for growing vegetables and fruits. It will use…
Any inventor who has taken a closer look at patents knows that each new patent application is made public after 18 months. Consequently, entrepreneurs who prefer to keep their invention under wraps tend not to file a patent application. But…
[UPDATE] According to researchers from the Geman Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), the coronavirus is capable of spreading over much wider distances than previously thought. Together with other science institutes in Germany, they have investigated the infections at Tönnies,…
A valve inside a nickel-titanium implant the size of a dry grain of rice that is inserted into the fallopian tubes and can be opened and closed electronically to allow or stop sperm swimming upwards, which would then make it…
In collaboration with the German Hager Group electrical company, Audi is exploring the possibilities of integrating electric vehicles into the electricity grid. The idea is that cars would also be able to supply electricity back to the house where they…