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The smelting industry needs to promote the availability of dust masks of more than one size, according to the research scientists behind a recent working environment study at Norwegian smelting plants.

Many people have tried to find ways of preventing hurricanes before they make landfall, resulting in the loss of human lives. Norwegian researchers believe that the answer lies in cold bubbles.

Experiments in SINTEF’s climate lab demonstrate that solar cells work very effectively in Norway in spite of the rain and cold. But there is one thing that owners should be aware of if they want to get the most from the sun’s energy.

According to a new research report, most plastic fragments end up on the ocean floor.

The aim of the national campaign “Sammen redder vi liv” (Saving lives together) is to encourage Norwegians to save more lives. Children are included, and researchers have been given the job of ensuring that it succeeds.

The industry is predicting a bright future for floating offshore wind farms. An entirely new concept has recently been tested in Trondheim.

It wasn’t until World War II that plastic products began to be mass-produced as they are today. The war accelerated the need for new technologies, and plastics came to revolutionise the way we live – providing us with durable, mass-produced and...

SINTEF Ocean participates in a European research project called SMARTFISH H2020, coordi-nated by SINTEF Ocean in Norway, which aim is to develop technological solutions to an ef-ficient, compliant and environmentally sustainable fishing sector

Øivind Wilhelmsen, aged 32, who is a research scientist at SINTEF and an Adjunct Professor at NTNU is awarded the Research Council of Norway's 2018 Prize for Young Research Scientists.

Norwegian cross-country skiing is applying science to analyse how its elite athletes exploit their strengths during training and competition. The aims of this sensor-based research are to give skiers valuable advice about training and help them find...

This ten-tonne test rig has been custom-designed by Norwegian researchers and built under contract by American engineers. It has finally been installed at SINTEF after eight years of planning and construction. This mammoth of a device, nicknamed the...

Senior Researcher Rachel Tiller received the prestigious Fulbright Arctic Chair Award for 2018-2019. She will be a Visiting Scholar at the Maritime Studies Program at Texas A&M University at Galveston outside Houston.

Waste heat and locally-produced renewable energy can be generated by compact, “urban power plants” that are efficient enough to supply heat to entire housing estates.

The research institutes SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and SINTEF Petroleum Research have merged from 1 January 2018. The new institute is called SINTEF Industry.

Model tests of the world's first battery-driven, autonomous container vessel are currently under way in the Ship Model Tank at SINTEF Ocean. The vessel will be ready for launch in eighteen months time.