According to the European Commission, Active Assisted Living (AAL) aims to extend the time people can live in a decent way in their own home. It sh...

Everything is made of something, yet, during the past century, the scientific and technological importance of new materials has not been widely app...

Biodiversity (or "biological diversity") is a product of evolution, which has brought forth and continues to develop a diversity of populations and...

A biotope is defined as the combination of the physical habitat and its associated community of species. Besides other habitats, also the water has...

The temperature climate of the earth is unstable and it is getting warmer. We are reaching levels that will cause growing problems unless we manage...

No construction lasts forever and at a moment in time, every building needs to be renovated and repaired. Maintenance can however be performed in m...

Chemistry is all around us. We breathe it, drink it, eat it, wear it, we can write with it and we can do many other things through it. Our food is ...

Preparing food without electricity or gas is unthinkable in our industrialized countries, but it is daily routine in other parts of the world. Eati...

We are living in the age of urbanization, where the majority of the global population lives in cities instead of rural areas. This of course create...

Gravity or gravitation is a natural phenomenon by which all objects are brought towards one another, including stars, planets, galaxies and sub-ato...