It’s often said that God created the Earth, and the Dutch made Holland. Now a study has been published on how they did it: very pragmatically.

In the European metropolises of 2025, the concept of cars will have changed drastically, according to Erik Kieskamp (26). Cars of the future will travel through cities picking up and dropping off people. “They’ll be the red blood cells of our cities.”

Researchers at Rice University (US) have made the first-ever electrical cables from carbon nanotubes, the magazine Technology Review heralds.

A new dike needs to be built along the coast of Katwijk, offering new opportunities to combine safety with leisure, business and sightseeing.

With his single photon detector, Dr Sander Dorenbos believes he can make communication more energy efficient and safer.
“Recently thousands of usernames and passwords for Hotmail, Google and Yahoo accounts have been illegally posted to the internet.

Over the last decade, hospitals in the Netherlands have become an impressive 19 percent more productive. Of this gain, 5 percent was lost due to inefficiencies of scale.

Name: Alex van Deyzen (31)
Nationality: Dutch
Promotor: Professor Rene Huijsman (Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering; Ship Hydromechanics and Structures group)
Subject: Smart control of fast ships
Thesis defence: One year to go

“When there is an emergency at sea, the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) sends out fast ships.

Menno Huijs, PhD student at TPM, is not too fond of standard covers. Instead, he wanted to make something that really stood out. His PhD supervisor, Professor Bert van Wee, was liberal and pragmatic enough not to object.