Water transport has long been a good alternative to rail and road, especially in the Netherlands. A major problem, however, is that the fleet of modern shipping vessels that the Dutch are familiar with will not be able to continue…
Sirius Medical raised € 4.4 million for the commercial introduction of Sirius Pintuition and for the development of additional products. The Series A financing was raised by a group of investors led by BOM Brabant Ventures. Co-investors are Curie Capital…
The Dutch are known as ‘early adopters’. We love to opt for devices with the latest features. But we tend not to take data security very seriously. German psychologists from the universities of Bremen and Bochum have come to the…
[Update] A yellow fever vaccine, which is already around 80 years old, also seems to work – in a modified form – against COVID-19. Virologists from the Rega Institute at the Belgian university KU Leuven have booked good results with…
Workers on industrial sites are often put in high-risk environments, especially in areas outside of factories. Rovenso, a robotic company based in Switzerland, has created an agile robot that will prevent humans from going into these situations while optimally monitoring the…
According to researchers at the German Max Planck Institute who carried out the study on this subject, more research is needed into whether animals can predict earthquakes. For this follow-up research, the scientists want to make use of the global…
Climate change is a problem of a magnitude that we have never faced before. More than 10% of the world’s economy is tied to fossil fuel sources and all of that needs to be changed. We need to do a…
Who is Hassan Charaf? “I was born and raised in Amsterdam and did a degree in finance, an unusual background for someone who works in innovation. Often these are people who’ve studied industrial design or innovation management. I just fell…
The current COVID-19 crisis has a strong moral undertone. It forces us to ask the question anew: are we doing the right things and are we doing the right things well enough? Are we setting the right priorities? For most…
Although the goal of attracting more women to the highest academic positions is commendable, the TU/e women’s quota is in contravention of the Dutch Equal Opportunities Act. This conclusion was reached last week by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights…