Fire tests on a simulated North Sea “problem platform” have left SINTEF NBL with a unique laboratory module, developed in-house, that will raise fire-protection standards at sea.

Instituto SINTEF do Brasil has been officially accredited by the ANP (Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíves) for receiving R&D funding through the Special Participation Fund.

A new “lab-flume” at the CEDREN research centre will help electricity generators to sell more hydropower when prices are highest – without negative environmental effects on rivers.

Anita Fossdal and Fride Vullum-Bruer want the i-Phone’s battery to last longer – even when we are on Svalbard, and even when we have downloaded a whole load of apps.

Statkraft has assigned a new two-year project to SINTEF to carry out research into osmotic power generation. New membrane technology and long-term trials will bring this renewable energy source one step closer to viability.

In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold and shiny new coins. Now, SINTEF scientists are trying to do the same thing.

Millions of mobile telephones, the world's first floating wind turbine and the landing system that brings natural gas up from Norway's first deepwater field have one thing in common; expertise from SINTEF is built into them.

Just before Christmas, 80 workers on the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea started their shifts by putting an intelligent plug in their ears.

Gender balance in the labour market has improved little in Norway in the course of the past 20 years, according to a new survey. A growing proportion of female managers is one of the few bright spots in the picture.

Pink and insidious: a tiny animal has become an expensive neighbour for fish farmers. Now scientists intend to make it hot for the little pest, and without using toxic chemicals.

A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.

The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to produce geothermal heat from the earth.

Could European air traffic controllers manage more flights with the help of modern productivity gains? Experts from Austria and Norway intend to answer that question.

Scandinavian, Finnish and Icelandic experts on the capture, transport and storage of CO₂ are meeting for the first time in a Nordic Centre of Expertise.

A Nobel Prize was awarded when "high-temperature superconductors" were discovered in 1986. Now the world has at last found an application for lossless conductors, thanks to two Norwegians who received a European "Innovation Oscar" on Wednesday for their pioneering work.

Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate the risk of fracture in pipelines much more accurately than current methods permit, according to the SINTEF group behind the method.

The EU wants electricity distribution systems that can utilise more solar and wind energy – and sixteen European partners from ten countries are now playing a key role in preparing for them.

The Oslo area saw the opening of its third hydrogen refuelling station on November 21, 2011. This station, located at SINTEF's Oslo office, offers a fuel produced of water.

The world’s smallest autofocus lens for mobile devices is ready, and Apple and Nokia are among the companies interested in introducing it.

According to a theory advanced by a SINTEF materials scientist, a mixture of water from sprinkler systems and molten aluminium from melted aircraft hulls created explosions that led to the collapse of the Twin Towers in Manhattan.

The first steps have been taken towards rainwear which repairs itself

Using mathematical models, Norwegian research scientists and Scandinavian industry are working on tailoring alloys which will increase the usefulness of recycled aluminium.

Four out of ten child custody cases which are heading to court end in agreement following mediation

On 1 September SINTEF participated in a summit meeting on CCS technologies attended by both King Harald of Norway and the South African President, Jacob Zuma.

An underwater “field” as big as a Norwegian county could provide two billion litres of kelp-based fuel a year. SINTEF is currently establishing a centre of expertise that will enable us to cultivate seaweed and kelp on a large scale