Every year since 1993, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has attracted around 180,000 spectators from all over the world. The fans who made their way to West Sussex, England in 2019 were witnesses to a new record for the Hill…
London, Stockholm or Milan already have it and many other cities are considering the introduction of a city toll. Plug-in hybrids with their combination of combustion engine and electric motor have proven themselves in a recent field test in the…
Human beings spend up to 90% of our lives indoors. Having high concentration of CO2 indoors is not a very difficult thing to achieve, as the air that we inhale turns into CO2. This can affect our cognitive abilities and…
The Berlin-based start-up PTScientists has ambitious plans. It wants to be the first German company to send its own lunar module into space. Between 2020 and 2022, it is supposed to land on the Moon twice. Until a few weeks…
The Alps are strongly affected by global warming, even more than other places. The rise in temperature is one hundred percent above the global average. One consequence is the shrinking of glaciers, a lesser known consequence is rockfall. The rock…
Millions of people take blood thinners in order to prevent deaths from blood clots. “A simple and effective solution”, says Pieter Reitsma, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and co-founder of LUMC spinoff…
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been presented again! So it’s high time we took a closer look at the winners and what we can expect from these start-ups in the coming years. Today: Hable. Hable is developing a braille…
“Until recently, vehicle manufacturers have had to choose between a high initial rate of acceleration and a higher top speed for electric propulsion systems,” says Bert Hellwig, head of E-Mobility at the ZF Group in Germany. With a 2-speed transmission,…
Physicists around the world are looking for theories that combine quantum physics and spacetime as described by Einstein. Now, researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) have discovered an important connection between quantum correlation and quantum physics. The essential…
The North Sea could become the ideal location for a series of artificial islands to collect the energy generated by wind turbines around it. On Tuesday, the international North Sea Wind Power Hub consortium (NSWPH) presented the research results into…