A full 90% of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The internet companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilised. Is this a good thing?

Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right.

Tomorrow’s offshore oil will be highly viscous – and it will be a heavy job to bring it ashore. But newly-won knowledge is offering hope for fields that today would have been turned down by the economists.

This is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Hard times for the shipping companies. Some of the blame lies with ships' officers who are failing to put new procedures into practice.

Heavy goods vehicles on Norwegian roads will soon be checked and weighed automatically – while on the road.

SINTEF has established a research centre for multiphase flow technology. The centre strengthens an already world-leading research group. The new Multiphase Flow Centre includes researchers and laboratories from several parts of SINTEF into a single centre under joint management.

A new-born “mole” homes in on small oil reservoirs – an almost untapped source of income.

Researchers aim to make it just as economic to process fish in Norway as to send them to China.

A robot is now being built to help stroke patients with training, motivation and walking

SINTEF, as part of the CCS Leadership Coalition, writes to President of European Commission calling for help getting CCS back on track.

The sport of cross-country skiing has always been preoccupied with its skis and waxing. Research now demonstrates that to shave off those extra hundredths of a second, competitive skiers should pay more attention to their clothing.

SINTEF intends to try and measure the noise generated by individual cars in traffic. This information will form one of several types of data registered at a measurement station.

As part of the research project Trygge Spor, more than fifty dementia sufferers have been using GPS for periods varying from several weeks to up to a year. The results show that localisation technology helps achieve an increased sense of security, freedom and quality of life, both for sufferers a...

Nine out of ten Norwegian fish-processing plants have closed, and a great deal of fish leave the country without being processed. However, according to a recent SINTEF report, the Norwegian fish-processing industry can be put on its feet again with the aid of new technology.

A bilateral competence project has opened the door to Japanese expertise in the field of alloy development for the aluminium giant Hydro. “This is an extremely important area for us,” says Trond Furu, a senior advisor in Hydro.

An abandoned chicken farm in Macedonia has been turned into one of the country’s most modern food factories. Its owner gives two SINTEF researchers much of the credit for the transformation.

A coating filled with tiny lubricant capsules could come to the rescue when metal surfaces dry out and friction builds up.

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden and the Norwegian research institute SINTEF have today signed an agreement concerning close collaboration between SP Fire Technology and SINTEF NBL AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of SINTEF.

SINTEF and the South Korean research institute Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding collaboration. Multiphase transport of oil and gas is one of the areas of mutual interest.

What really happened  when 25,000 people missed the Denmark vs. Norway game this autumn because Canal+ had problems with its servers?

Many Norwegian companies are considering developing their software in India or China in order to cut costs. However, researchers are critical.

Researchers are developing data systems which can adapt in the face of virus and hacker attacks. If software components are attacked they will be replaced automatically without any inconvenience to the user.

On Wednesday December 5, 2012, the report “Quality Assurance Phase 1 (KS1 – Choice of Concept) of the Ocean Space Centre was published. The report has been written by Metier og Møreforsking Molde, which were engaged as the external quality assurers of the project by the Norwegian Ministry of Fina...

Norwegian researchers have developed the world's first sensor capable of measuring individual particles in a blood sample. This new innovation could cause a sensation in the medical world.