“Gas is sexy!” With these rather remarkable words, the German Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier opened a meeting in Berlin last week intended to mark the culmination of months of dialogue between the Ministry and industry on the future…
Every year more than 30,000 people in Europe die from multi-resistant bacteria. According to figures from the European Disease Prevention and Control Agency (ECDC), approximately 700,000 people per year are infected with these kinds of pathogens, more than two thirds…
This year Nienke Hoogvliet will be at the Dutch Design Week in the Schellensfabriek for the seventh time. Her exhibition called H.E.R.B.S – Healthier Environment Remedy for Body and Skin – focuses on the beneficial effects of clothing fabrics on…
Students at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) are no longer sitting in the lecture halls as much as they used to. Education is focusing more and more on the practical side, which means on the actual application of technological…
This year, Gijs Kuijpers and Jordie Rovers will be at the Dutch Design Week for the third time with their own exhibition: GLIM. Earlier this year, Kuijpers and his design agency Studio Eigengijs were present at the Salone del Mobile,…
250,000 Europeans suffer from Crohn’s disease. More than 700,000 patients are in the United States. There are also thousands more in Japan, Australia and Canada. In total, several million people worldwide live with the diagnosis of “chronic inflammation of the…
Apart from climate change deniers, no one else is indifferent as to where climate change is heading. Experts and a growing number of citizens agree that it is high time we stopped climate change. Recently, the German federal government announced…
The UK’s first full-size autonomous bus maneuvered around real-life road features including a cyclist on its first public demonstration, last week in Birmingham. The vehicle, which uses sensors including radar, lasers, cameras and ultrasound to detect its surroundings, independently negotiated…
Proteins are often used in medicine to deliver drugs to the body and maintain the activity of these drugs in the body. Fundamental research has now provided a better understanding of the body’s own processes. As well as a significant…
Climate change and dwindling agricultural land are major challenges for food and feed production. The supply of animal protein is particularly problematic. The start-up Blue Planet Ecosystems, based in San Francisco and Vienna, wants to shift pisciculture (fish farming) to…