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  26 April 2013

  

  Researchers at America's oldest technological research university, Rensselaer have achieved a major breakthrough, which will impact importantly on the food industry. The polytechnic institute has developed a new method to selectively kill deadly bacteria, such as listeria monocytogenes.

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  26 April 2013

  

  When we hear the word refinery, we immediately associate this with smokestacks and the chemical industry. A refinery is in fact nothing more than a factory equipped with a fractional distillation column that separates the various compounds out of the oil, in order to enable these to be processed into industrial platform chemicals.

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  25 April 2013

  

  On Thursday 18 and Friday 19 April, BiomimicryNL gave an introductory workshop at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature and translates the designs and processes found there into innovation and development directions. The key question in biomimicry when confronting a problem is: how would nature solve this?

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  19 April 2013

  

  Urogyn, a young and innovative company in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has developed a product offering a solution to urinary stress incontinence that can also be used to perform sterilizations in women. Last Wednesday, the first stress incontinence patients to receive this therapy were successfully treated in HagaZiekenhuis in The Hague.

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  11 April 2013

  

  The plastic ‘soup’ - the huge patches of plastics garbage that pollute the oceans - is a huge threat for the world’s marine life. Plastic soup is found in two major areas between America and Asia, where the Gulf Stream currents have trapped vast amounts of plastic debris. This plastic soup is caused by the fact that we are using increasing...

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