Industrial Design alumni founded Ecoforma and share an approach to sustainable electronics. Practice aligns with ID education and helps students act on pressing challenges today. Recently, alumni Mendel Broekhuijsen and Jesús Muñoz Alcantara spoke with students in the Sustainability and Design course at TUe about how their studio, Ecoforma, helps designers of electronic products apply …
Scientists replace toxic stains with espresso, revealing that coffee can highlight cells under electron microscopes. To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognisable under the electron microscope, they are treated with a staining agent. The standard staining agent for this is uranyl acetate. However, some laboratories are not allowed to use …
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A fleet renewal, a war on waste, and leveraging unique government partnerships to secure cleaner fuel are making this small South Pacific airline greener. From Philippe Marie’s corner office in Papeete, you can see most of Air Tahiti Nui’s fleet of four Boeing 787s at any given time. One cobalt Dreamliner parked at the terminal …
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A British company using AI to help optimise recycling and a Dutch start-up transforming air into drinking water are among the cleantech innovators that Amazon has decided to support through its Sustainability Accelerator. The e-commerce giant has confirmed the 2025 Climate Tech cohort of its Sustainability Accelerator, selecting 11 winners from more than 550 applications. All applicants …
Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as they address two of the world’s biggest challenges: plastic pollution and the climate crisis. The work is published in the journal Science Advances. As CO2 concentrations in …
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