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Nurses are increasingly overloaded. This is especially true in nursing homes and in home care, as shown by the results of the latest nursing survey.

To gain more knowledge about how ultra-processed food affects us, we need new research methods, claim researchers. Now they are looking to better understand our intestinal flora.

At a time when technological innovation and European defense cooperation are more important than ever, the ARMETISS project is in full swing, developing the next generation of soldier systems.

Premature babies are particularly susceptible to strong sensory impressions and high sound levels from the incubator. Now researchers will look at what can be done to protect children’s hearing and development.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease often have to wait a long time to find the right medicine. But the methods of a large interdisciplinary research team offer hope.

Artificial intelligence of the future will be in the form of small, specialized models.

Many people feel like they’re invisible, made invisible or hypervisible in a stressful way.

Cancer patients can regain full health with immunotherapy. Now researchers are hunting for the perfect immune cell with the help of a very special robot. No one has done this before.

Norwegian researchers are developing systems that can translate sign language into text or speech in real time. If they succeed, communication between hearing and deaf people will improve significantly.

AI has become a tool that more and more people are using to create both text and images. But AI can also help a pressured healthcare system.

Young adults with reduced work capacity benefited greatly from the four-week interdisciplinary rehabilitation stay. The key: an individually tailored programme and a supportive community.

We need to think more about the interaction between architecture, pedagogy and different forms of learning when we plan new schools, researchers say.

Firefighters do hard physical work while being exposed to great heat strain. Now we know more about what happens to their body temperature during a smoke dive.

SINTEF experts on microchip technology are working on a method to detect biomarkers in our breath and to miniaturize a monitoring device. The project can help to discover symptoms of COPD earlier and change the lives of millions of people suffering...

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s can get better if they train at a high intensity, because high-intensity exercise activates the nervous system and helps to boost strength. Researchers are now developing an app to make training...