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Professor Vincent Eijsink, NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), received this year’s Bioenergy Innovation Award under “CenBio day” 17 to 19 March 2015.

In a similar process as roasting coffee beans, we can heat raw and unprocessed biomass. The result is a fuel with a number of advantageous properties. The process is called torrefaction.

They damage our ability to reproduce, and they pollute the natural environment. Yet chemicals known as hormone mimics can be found in consumer goods. Eventually they end up in our water. But we now have a way of capturing them.

They damage our ability to reproduce, and they pollute the natural environment. Yet chemicals known as hormone mimics can be found in consumer goods. Eventually they end up in our water. But we now have a way of capturing them.

Microorganisms that live in the depths of an oil reservoir can withstand such extreme conditions they can be used in harsh chemical processes.

A Norwegian-Danish project aims to find better weapons against life-threating multi-resistant bacteria.

Researchers in Trondheim have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills.

Using nanocapsules containing cancer drugs, researchers have succeeded in attacking tumours with surgical precision. One of the ways to manufacture such capsules is with minute droplets of super glue.

The European project NANOMED2020s core mission is to federate the nanomedicine community. The projects newly released Map provides thorough insights into the existing nanomedicine community by introducing on a single chart all the ecosystem‘s actors...

A flag waving in the wind can illustrate what we call "air-solids interaction". When the wind hits the top of the flagpole the flag dances to the wind's rhythms, often in complex ways.  And as we all know: it takes two to tango. The air-flow is also...

Just think if your surgeon could tell you whether an operation had been successful, even before the scalpel touched your skin. Research scientist Sigrid K. Dahl from SINTEF Materials and Chemistry means to use simulation models to make that dream a...

For the first time, Norwegian scientists have managed to produce completely new antibiotics from bacteria found in the sea.