Technology for a better society ​

mRNA-based drugs are emerging as the drug of the future for a wide range of diseases, but they are difficult and time-consuming to develop. A new method based on human blood could make this easier.

Time is running out for the climate – can geoengineering buy us some more? A new report from SINTEF explores technologies that could help reverse climate change.

We need more electricity, and the power grid must be expanded significantly. But how much and how quickly? This is how “monster masts” and expensive power expansion can be postponed.

Installing just four percent of Europe’s commercial buildings with a Thermal Box from Norway — about the size of an American industrial refrigerator — would spare Europe the need to build seven nuclear power plants.

What’s one of the most difficult things for a robot to do that hasn’t already been done? How about a robot that can see, understand, grasp and cut soft, slippery and deformable objects – without destroying them?