To keep the problem of the future at bay By: Eveline Meijers 21 October 2020 The World Antimicrobial Awareness Week is approaching: a worldwide campaign week of the WHO (World Health Organization). Under the slogan “Antimicrobials: handle with care”, the WHO tries to increase awareness and understanding about antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is an urgent…

Voice assistants, such as Siri, have risen in popularity over the years. Juniper Research estimated over 3 billion voice assistants to be in use last February! To suit to the needs of their users, voice assistants have to keep improving. Last month, the newest Alexa update came out. It is now able to ask you…

Not every robot looks like a human Do you think robots have to look like humans? Think again. The picture below shows robots that are currently being developed in Pittsburgh. The investigator working on these, Zeynep Tempel, took some inspiration from nature. More specific these tiny robots are modeled after a specific species of Ants….

#5. Hoekstra, Hessel; Lentink, Martin Sven; Meppelink, Jojan; Schilt, Britte  The first time humans set foot on Mars might be as soon as 2033! This means that the first people to set foot on the red planet might be among our current generation of high school students. As organizations like SpaceX set their eyes on…

The meat on your plate might look delicious, but it is not as innocent as it may seem. Meat is at the base of many of the problems that we are facing today. The immense, worldwide meat consumption contributes to climate change, for example. Additionally,the meat-industry even creates a risk for infectious diseases, like Q-fever…

By: Emma Bröring, Eveline Meijers, Stelios Stergiou and Mentko de Vries Instagram: https://instagram.com/sciencetobe/ Your everyday life is going to change in the near future: superbacteria are on the rise! Bacteria are becoming more and more resistant against antibiotics, the treatment of how we combat bacterial infections. These superbacteria exchange their DNA with other bacteria, making them also ‘’super,’’ thus resistant. This is a major global health problem…

Topic introduction… You’ve probably heard about climate change, maybe you’ve even joined in one of the protests calling for climate action. The use of fossil fuels has resulted in more CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere. This gas traps heat from the sun, making our planet hotter. The effect: melting ice caps, more extreme weather, droughts, floods… you know the story. But CO2 does so much…

Discover the world of robots The ins and outs of recent development in robotics   Members (team 4): Sacha van Ruiten Vera Verheijen Moyke Versluis Pim Wilms   What do we talk about? Robots are starting to look more and more like real human beings, but how are they made and how do they fit…

It is the hypothetical year of 2298 and a man has fallen off his flying bicycle. He had a heart attack and needs immediate medical help. Luckily, the patrolling drones have spotted the incident and raced towards the scene. Immediately, the medical drones perform CPR and a heart transplant. They didn’t use a real heart…

Tons of plastic, everywhere. Science-based solutions and alternatives to environmental plastics. You’ve heard it, we’ve heard it: There’s plastic in the sea, there’s plastic in the oceans, there’s plastic all around us.  There’s so much plastic that you can find entire islands floating around the sea that are made of nothing but plastic.    Due to this so called ‘plastic pollution’, the price…