How Adriano Trevisan contracted the coronavirus will never be known. The 77-year-old resident of Vo’Euganeo in Veneto (north-east Italy) divided his time between his home and the card club. He had never been to China. Trevisan died on February 21…
The Dutch road construction company BAM Infra has built on-site the world”s first electrically powered road roller. The 10 to 12 metric ton roller is working on a project for the municipality of Almere this week. By using this zero-emission…
For over 100 years humankind has fantasied about robots that look, behave, and interact like us. This has been the theme of many science fiction movies from the silent film Metropolis in 1927 to recent feature films like Terminator, Ex-Machina,…
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 still remains a huge puzzle to scientists around the world. The only thing that is certain is that the pathogens reproduce at breakneck speed in human cells after an infection. This happens when the virus duplicates…
Climate change has made weather events more extreme and unpredictable. Risks from natural hazards have been increasing. Dealing with the risk requires communication between different stakeholders, an aspect that has often been neglected in the past. A particular challenge is…
Belgian and French hospital nurses are delighted with the protective snorkeling masks that are now being provided free of charge on a grand scale. The masks were originally designed to be used as sports equipment. Thanks to a purpose-built adapter,…
Johannes Berger was 14 when he first came into contact with programming at school. At the time he bought a book to learn more about it. But the book didn’t make it any easier to get into the subject. Later…
Every country is undergoing the corona crisis in its own way. To the Spanish, it’s war. From the beginning of the corona crisis, the Spanish population are addressed almost daily by the Chief of the Defense Staff. From behind a…
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day have been featured and…
“You don’t understand” was what the school principal had said. “This is not the time to experiment, we have to stick to dealing with the current situation as much as possible.” In recent weeks, the traditional education system had come…