DAF Trucks and VDL have presented their first electric truck. With a range of 100 km, it was designed for the distribution of cargo in cities, where the need for quiet, emission-free vehicles is the ...

Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito, and felt nothing at the time? That experience has now been exploited to design a painless injection needle using the principle of biomimicry, which develops ...

While an autonomous car uses more electricity due to all the electronic components, its economical driving style may still be more environmentally friendly. That is the conclusion of American research ...

In collaboration with NAM, the English company Storelectric is planning to build a plant to store renewable electricity by compressing air. Storelectric was the winner of the NAM70 Challenge that the ...

Petroteq, a Canadian company, is to open a plant capable of producing oil cleanly from oil sands, in the US state of Utah next month. Chunks of sand will be processed in a tank containing a solvent, ...

Together with a consortium of energy concerns and wind turbine fitters, start-up Fistuca is to carry out a major offshore test with its water hammer. This test is designed to demonstrate that a ...

The Royal Netherlands Army can look forward to receiving nine multi-mission radar (MMR) systems from Thales developed entirely in the Netherlands, according to an announcement made on Monday by Thales ...

You can now work on losing your fear of heights with a smartphone, a pair of cheap VR glasses and an app developed in the Netherlands. Fear of heights in itself can be quite debilitating, and also ...

Dikes protected by vegetated foreshores require less raising and reinforcing than is often planned presently, according to civil engineer Vincent Vuik in his PhD thesis. He received his doctorate from ...

Companies such as Shell, Gasunie and NOGEPA regard themselves as springboards for the energy transition to sustainable alternatives, according to the KIVI conference titled Moving away from fossil ...

Op het uiterst westelijke puntje van de Rotterdamse haven wordt vandaag een nieuw bezoekerscentrum geopend: Portlantis.

Een zwerm microbots kan honderd keer zijn eigen gewicht tillen. Onderzoekers hopen hiermee ooit in de menselijke bloedbaan medische wonderen te verrichten.