The German Max-Planck Institute has developed the thinnest and lightest mirror in the world. It is what is known as a quantum mirror with a diameter of approximately seven micrometers and a thickness of 10 nanometers. It could signify the…
Attract talent and businesses with a smart and sustainable building. – That is the aspiration of High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE) with their new office villa. The official opening of the building is planned for the spring of 2021. Commercial…
View Post 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. Bert Jan Danker from the start-up 4Silence tells us how 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…
Researchers from the British University of Birmingham see a direct link between the number of COVID-19 cases and the level of air pollution caused by particulate matter in the southern Dutch province of Brabant. The British scientists have been analyzing…
Globalization has pushed the manufacture of many of the goods we use every day far beyond our field of vision. In recent years, awareness of the responsibility that consumers and companies have for all manufacturing and supply chains of these…
The coronavirus affects not only airways, kidneys, blood vessels and intestines. British researchers from University College London and the University of Liverpool have also noted various brain damage in several studies of COVID-19 patients. These occur not only in people…
The search for effective substances for medications and vaccines tends to be laborious and often in vain. Scientists looking for a vaccine to combat the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and medication to treat COVID-19 could now be helped by a new molecular…
Dutch inventors and researchers are among the most active patent applicants at the European Patent Office (EPO) where 3D printing is involved. This is evidenced by a new study that the EPO made public yesterday. Within Europe, the Netherlands ranks…
Aquaponics is regarded as a future technology in the field of nutrition. It enables the breeding of fish and the cultivation of crops in the controlled environment of a greenhouse. This can promise food security at a time when climate…