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In Norway, men suffering from depression are three times more likely to become work disabled than non-sufferers. This risk is only twice as great for women.

NTNU student entrepreneurs have joined up with an inventor from SINTEF to commercialize a new, green method for cleaning up oil spills.

Soon it may be easier to design, plan and carry out infrastructure operations in deep water. The EU project called "SWARMs" aims to achieve this by integrating autonomous vehicles such as ROVs and AUVs.

No fewer than nine Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI) were opened by NTNU and SINTEF recently. The Smart Maritime centre is led by MARINTEK, and it alone has been awarded NOK 192 million to fund its research for the coming eight years.

The office is located in Brusselhuset, right in the heart of the city’s European Quarter. We will share the premises with NTNU and the University of Bergen.

New research has revealed that Norwegian COPD sufferers are prescribed even more sedatives than psychiatric patients. The researchers behind the study believe that this is problematic because the drugs in question are addictive and inhibit lung...

Imagine a power generation laboratory housing a generator equivalent to a 40 kilometre-long line of AA batteries connected in series. Well, now it's here – and was formally opened by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon on 2 September.

Soon you won't have to worry about how to pay your bus and train fares. All you need is your mobile phone or a bank card.

This week, research scientists from eight countries are meeting in Trondheim to discuss the next steps in the campaign against antibiotic resistance. Researchers are currently developing novel drugs against multi-resistant bacteria in order to make...

They're going to build a new road right outside your living room window. The authorities have sent you a 'noise map', but what you really need is to hear what the traffic noise will sound like. Well, soon you can.

Escapes of fish have long been a problem for the aquaculture industry. But now, improvements in technology and systematic research have drastically reduced the number of escapes.

Norwegian laboratories are developing technical clothing that can "sense" how your body is responding. This will make working under extreme weather conditions safer.

During thunderstorms, when Thor the God of Thunder starts wielding his hammer, researchers know exactly what you should and shouldn't do if you want to keep safe.

NTNU hopes that the Ocean Space Exploration Day will inspire young people to appreciate technology while they are still at junior secondary school. This makes it an obvious strategy for the University (NTNU) to invite pupils to MARINTEK's many...

This time lapse video shows the process of upgrading the bottom of the Ocean Basin Laboratory at MARINTEK.