With the planned expansion of ASML at the Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) North and the long-standing desire for a train station at Eindhoven Airport, the discussion of a new local railroad is once again topical. This rail line could connect…
MicroAlign, a spin-off from the Eindhoven University of Technology, has closed a €1 million seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of high-accuracy fiber arrays. The Dutch venture capital firms DeepTechXL and PhotonVentures led the funding round, reflecting investors’ belief in…
TNO introduces a pioneering method for tracking ‘dark’ ship traffic around the North Sea. Using unused glass fibers in fiber optic cables, also known as dark fibers, as sensors, vibrations from ships, for example, can be captured and located. It…
Criticism is gathering around the report released late last month by PwC titled ‘Semicon in NL’. Last week, we published this article about the report, which was prepared by one of the world’s leading accounting and consulting firms. One-sided and…
Last May, it was particularly rainy in the Dutch region of North Brabant. The region has not seen such persistent rainfall in a century, with three times the usual amount for May. The saturated soil cannot absorb more water, and…
The energy transition in the Netherlands has reached an important milestone. In 2023, as much as 17% of all energy was derived from renewable sources, up two percentage points from the previous year. According to CBS figures, this increase is…
In case China invades Taiwan, ASML could remotely shut down its advanced chip machines in China. Sources reported that to the Bloomberg news agency late last month. The news has reassured Americans, insiders said. Concerned parties themselves did not officially…
After two years of research and tests, student team HyDriven – formerly known as Green Team Twente – revealed Nebula, its latest hydrogen racing car. The car, the world’s first homebuilt hydrogen-powered formula model, will compete in the Formula Student…
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) will fund research on new radiation therapy techniques with over €1 million. The research team, including scientists from Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, TU Delft, and Lausanne University Hospital, will look into very high electron…
Chronic pain is a form of long-standing pain that persists beyond the recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis—the swelling and tenderness of one or more joints. In the Netherlands, 20% of the population…