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Automobile industry throws itself en masse into manufacturing medical equipment and face masks

Car companies all over the world are shutting down their automobile production. But they are, of course, not standing still either. Development of new (electric) models is continuing. And there is a new development underway on the production side as…

  • Maurits Kuypers
  • March 26, 2020
  • Sustainability

How CO2 from atmospheric air is converted into a high-tech raw material

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is building a globally unique experimental plant that converts CO2 (carbon dioxide) from the atmospheric air into a pure and industrially applicable carbon dioxide: carbon black. Global warming has to be limited…

  • Hildegard Suntinger
  • March 25, 2020
  • Health, Start-ups

Start-up of the day: Developing talent with the help of robots

Tamar Neter-Gans worked for many years in the marketing & sales department at an online marketing intelligence agency. Since 2017 she is founder-owner of RobotWise. A start-up that currently has four employees and about 20 self-qualified trainers, together with whom…

  • Erzsó Alföldy
  • March 25, 2020
  • Health

Start-up screens 2 billion substances for efficacy against COVID-19

The Austrian start-up Innophore will screen two billion potential active substances for Covid-19. This is the largest computer-based screening project in the world. Collaboration with Google and Harvard Medical School has made this possible. COVID-19 is spreading at breakneck speed.…

  • Hildegard Suntinger
  • March 25, 2020
  • Sustainability

Radio waves protect wooden cultural treasures from insects

Researchers from Leipzig in Germany have developed a method based on radio waves that enables them to protect wooden museum exhibits against harmful insects such as woodworm. It does not require any chemicals. This could significantly reduce the environmental impact…

  • Hildegard Suntinger
  • March 25, 2020
  • Sustainability

Electric Auke #14: ‘Don’t suddenly act as if streaming is bad for the environment’

Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is concerned. This week: is streaming…

  • Milan Lenters
  • March 24, 2020
  • Start-ups, Sustainability

Start-up of the day: soft shampoo marbles eliminate disposable plastic

Entrepreneur Martin Leban from the start-up OneTwoThreeZero comes from a family of hair care manufacturers in Slovenia. It bothered him that shampoo and conditioner, as an example, are almost always packed in plastic bottles. “Take all those small bottles you…

  • Lucette Mascini
  • March 24, 2020
  • Health

First trials with potential vaccine against corona virus

The number of infections with the novel SARS-Co-Virus 2 corona virus is rising constantly. Scientists around the world are working hard to find cures and vaccines. Virologists and epidemiologists repeatedly insist that the course of the pandemic will largely depend…

  • Petra Wiesmayer
  • March 24, 2020
  • Health

Graphite nanoplates on implants can prevent infection

A protective layer of graphite nanoplates on implants can prevent infections in patients. That is what scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have discovered. This discovery is of enormous medical importance. According to the European Centre for Disease…

  • Petra Wiesmayer
  • March 24, 2020
  • Mobility

Charge your car at any lamppost in London’s first ‘Electric Avenue’

Sutherland Avenue in the London borough of Westminster is the first street in the United Kingdom to have its lampposts converted into charging stations for electric vehicles. Over the next few weeks, a further two adjoining streets will be fitted…

  • Arnoud Cornelissen
  • March 23, 2020
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