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These scientists can predict the direction an oil spill will take, or if salmon lice will infect a neighbouring fish farm.

If a car tilts, a sensor beeps, and our mobile phones alert us when the battery gets too low. But who gets notified if grandma falls? Or who checks her blood pressure daily?

SINTEF achieved good financial results in 2010. The group’s operating profit was NOK 139 million, compared with NOK 107 million in 2009. Good earnings over a period of several years have made it possible to invest more than half a billion kroner in...

Curtains of air-bubbles are turning out to be a new method of fighting oil-spills. The bubbles gather up the oil efficiently, even in winds and strong currents, and keep it together in a “pool”.

All the partners in the DemoCLOCK project will work towards the proof of feasibility: the medium-scale demonstration of a 500kW packed bed CLC reactor in the Elcogas company’s Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant in Puertollano...

A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective CO₂ capture technology that could herald a new generation of power-generation plants with integrated CO₂ capture.

The first forklift trucks in Europe that will run on fuel cells and with hydrogen in their tanks are on the way to the market. No fewer than 30 demonstration units are to be tested, and Norway is among the countries potentially involved in the trials

The first forklift trucks in Europe that will run on fuel cells and with hydrogen in their tanks are on the way to the market. No fewer than 30 demonstration units are to be tested, and Norway is among the countries potentially involved in the trials

Industry has estimated that a week of sick-leave costs companies an average of NOK 13,000 in lost production and increased costs.