Scientists of the Research Centre Jülich and the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster developed a new solid-state battery. Its speciality: It has an anode made of pure lithium. The alkali metal is regarded as the ideal electrode material because it achieves…
It’s spring, birds start to sing in the morning, trees grow leaves, the days lengthen and I sense a growing resistance to the increase of the administrative burden healthcare professionals face. We need spring. We need the vibrancy of the…
For a long time, scientists have suspected an existence of water and perhaps even life on ancient Mars; especially, since ESA‘s Mars Express discovered a lake below the planet’s South Pole last year. It is still unclear whether there really…
Over the next twelve years, governments and companies in the Northern Netherlands intend to invest 2.8 billion euros in the large-scale use of sustainably generated hydrogen. This is stated in the ‘Investment agenda hydrogen Noord-Nederland‘, published by the provinces of…
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) are investigating the swarm behaviour of living beings using artificial intelligence. Previously, this was done with algorithms that were based on assumptions. Artificial intelligence enables an unbiased perspective on the swarm behaviour of…
The Brainport region will be host to a major European start-up event this spring. Registration has opened for Beyond Tech, a full-day event “for tech innovation in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond”, hosted by start-up accelerator HighTechXL. The event expects…
Marc van Ravensteijn was a long-time owner of business that built hearses; he is now applying his knowledge of specialist vehicles to solving an entirely different “last mile” problem – that of finding greener and more efficient solutions for the…
For some time now, oil and gold have no longer been at the top of the global commodity market. Thanks to mobile phones, notebooks, tablets and electric cars, lithium, which is used in large quantities for lithium-ion batteries, has become…
The Dutch province of Gelderland is funding the OnePlanet initiative with €65 million over the next eight years. The centre will explore and develop innovative technologies for food, health and agriculture. The initiative is founded by Wageningen University & Research, Radboud University,…
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), has turned our previous assumptions on the CO2 uptake of forests upside down: Photosynthesis alone is not responsible for carbon sinks, but also the age of…