Global M&A activity up 10% in first nine months of 2025

ZURICH, Switzerland — Global mergers and acquisitions activity grew 10 percent in the first nine months of 2025 compared with the same period last year, extending a gradual recovery despite uncertainty over US tariff policies and geopolitical...

New Tech Could Make Utah Roads Glow in the Dark

Australia has been trying out glow in the dark paint for dark roads that don’t have streetlights. This could be a solution that would make driving a lonely highway in Utah safer without the cost of putting up expensive light poles. The Development...

LadBible marketer Mike Walsh: ‘Culture starts in the comments’

From cause-based campaigns like ‘Trash Isles’ and ‘Uokm8?’ to LadBible’s latest mission to close the gap between porn and reality, marketing director Mike Walsh is helping the publisher turn audience conversation into cultural action. He tells Tim...

REMEDY: Redefining architecture through Engineered Living Materials

The REMEDY project is pioneering a transformative approach to architecture. It merges microbiology, biotechnology, materials science, and design into a combined vision of living, responsive, and sustainable buildings. REMEDY proposes a...

Northsea raises €660K pre-seed to reinvent customer research with AI

Dutch AI-native platform for customer research, Northsea, has raised a €660,000 pre-seed funding round led by early-stage VC firm CapitalT, alongside a group of experienced business angels. Founded by Geart van Dam (CEO) and Nick van Zanten (CTO),...

Serbia develops 'hazelnut excellence district', expands fruit cultivation

Serbia's Minister of Agriculture, Dragan Glamočić, has announced the creation of a working group to establish the country's first Hazelnut Excellence District in Western Bačka. The initiative will bring together producers, local authorities, and...

The Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025 Outline Top 10 Emerging Technologies for the Planet

H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, President & CEO of UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators, was present at the session. The 10 technologies were outlined in a World Economic Form report titled ‘10 Emerging Technology...

Germany’s aevoloop backs circular plastics innovation with €8 million boost to tackle waste and microplastics

The Leipzig-based chemistry startup aevoloop has raised around €3.25 million in a Seed investment round, together with just under €5 million in funding from to accelerate the market launch of its circular technology. The public funding is...

Top 10 emerging technologies for planet: WEF report

As climate disasters continue to cause disruptions across industries, the Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025 convened experts in Dubai to pinpoint the most promising emerging technologies that can strengthen the...

Type 2 diabetes costs Dutch economy over €1 billion a year

October 16, 2025 Photo: Depositphotos.comType 2 diabetes costs the Dutch economy more than €1 billion a year, mainly because people with the condition are less able to work or earn lower wages if they do have a job, according to a new study by SEO...

After Four Decades In Silicon Valley, This Engineer Is A New Billionaire Thanks To The AI Boom

John Colgrove—who still goes by his childhood nickname of Coz—dials in to a Zoom call from a hotel room in Vienna where he’s taking a brief respite ahead of meeting with Pure Storage’s European clients and speaking at conferences across London,...

Arthur den Hartog is the New Ambassador of the Netherlands to Bulgaria

H.E. Arthur den Hartog is the new Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Bulgaria. Today he was accepted by the President Mr. Rumen Radev to whom he handed his letters of credence. Ambassador Den Hartog brings over 30 years of diplomatic...

What Climate Tech is Overhyped and What’s Not

(Bloomberg) -- There's always big ideas in the climate technology space, but it can be hard to get your head around all the different types of technologies making waves. What’s real and what’s low-carbon smoke and mirrors? This week on Zero,...

The World’s Largest Food Companies Are Missing the Future Protein Opportunity

8 Mins Read By failing to invest and innovate in plant-based foods, global food giants including Nestlé, Unilever and Walmart risk losing out on the protein race. Political sensitivities, a lack of research, and low specialised expertise are...

Future industry will be driven by new breed of digitally led engineers, expert tells NCE

For a long time, platforms and software have helped handle complex projects, but the focus is increasingly on productivity. Mark Coates – Bentley Systems vice president of infrastructure policy advancement That’s the view of Bentley vice president...

Breda University Launches Ambitious Food Research Project on World Food Day

BREDA, Netherlands, Oct. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, on World Food Day, Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas) announces they will participate in a three-year food research project. Together with the Louis Bolk Institute and Wageningen...

Netherlands, Tanzania partner to boost poultry sector

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA is seeking to modernise and expand its poultry sector through a strategic partnership with the Netherlands, aimed at improving productivity, sustainability and technical expertise among local farmers. This was the focus of...

European automakers expect chip shortages after Dutch intervene at tech firm Nexperia

The conflict surrounding the Nijmegen-based chipmaker Nexperia is affecting nearly all European car manufacturers, according to the European carmakers’ association ACEA. Last week, manufacturers and their suppliers were notified that Nexperia can...

Sustainable dyke reinforcement in the Netherlands

This summer, the Tiel-Waardenburg dyke reinforcement project achieved an impressive milestone: more than 100,000 operating hours with electric equipment. Photo courtesy of Van Oord From trucks and cranes to shovels and sheet piles, an average of...

Studio Job’s House of Delft is the Netherlands’ biggest, craziest artwork

Some artists treat fabrication as a means to an end; Job Smeets is not one of them. He likes to get his hands dirty. His work is loaded with conceptual metaphors, but he speaks most passionately about the tactility of majolica, the plasticity of...