Start-up of the week: Tinder for carpoolers
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
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In Spain: A child, a book and a tree
Your life is complete once you have brought a child into the world, written a book and planted a tree. That’s apparently a good Spanish custom. My daughter Laura was born on 4 May 2003. Three...
Ireland plans to plant 440 million trees over the next 20 years
In the coming two decades, the “Green Island” is to once more become as green as it once was in the past. 80 percent of the 84,421 square kilometer island in Northern Europe was formerly...
Ancient wood helps reconstruct glacier formation
At the University of Innsbruck there is a marked expertise in dendrochronology, also known as tree-ring dating research. The aim of science is to date wood and to draw conclusions about...
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Plants with deep roots could utilize dry soil
Roots of plants grow either horizontally or deep into the soil. Two plant hormones determine the direction of growth: auxin and cytokinin. This finding was discovered by an international team of...
Research project “GrüneLunge” investigates the resilience of trees in urban spaces
Extreme weather conditions make trees’ lives in the city particularly difficult. According to observations, they are more susceptible to the consequences of global warming because they don’t grow in...
A Christmas Tree from Uber
Uber is already known in Eindhoven as the fiercely competitive taxi service that handles all interaction and payments via an app. But as a young company, you shouldn’t focus on just one...
