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A sensor developed in Norway gives microphones hyper-acute hearing and a sense of direction.

The innumerable divisions of the bronchi often turn the hunt for tumours in the lungs into a game of chance. But soon, lung specialists will be able to navigate accurately inside the airways by “GPS”.

In Holmestrand, Norway, scrap aluminium gains a new lease of life – via energy-efficient technology, while Europe gets rolled recycled aluminium panels that are tough enough to be used as external cladding for buildings.

The innumerable divisions of the bronchi often turn the hunt for tumours in the lungs into a game of chance. But soon, lung specialists will be able to navigate accurately inside the airways by “GPS”.

In Holmestrand, Norway, scrap aluminium gains a new lease of life – via energy-efficient technology, while Europe gets rolled recycled aluminium panels that are tough enough to be used as external cladding for buildings.

The 1st Ocean Technology Summit took place June 4th 2013, during Nor-Shipping 2013. The conference proved to be a huge success, both in terms of the chosen topics (green shipping and arctic challenges) and the number of participants.

Helping people with chronic liver failure to live longer, better lives.

Is it really possible to get broadband coverage in the Arctic? "Yes, indeed!", say Telenor, the Norwegian Space Centre and the SINTEF company MARINTEK, who are currently looking into how they can make it happen.

SINTEF's South American spin-off, the Brazilian research foundation Instituto SINTEF do Brasil, has brought into harbour its first three contracts worth NOK 28 million (USD 4.8 million).

SINTEF Petroleum Research is proud to announce the immediate availability of the regional petroleum systems/basin modelling study "Western Barents Sea Study 2012 (WBS 2012) – Mesozoic play types: evaluation and uncertainty".

A full 90% of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The internet companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilised. Is this a good thing?

Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right.

Tomorrow’s offshore oil will be highly viscous – and it will be a heavy job to bring it ashore. But newly-won knowledge is offering hope for fields that today would have been turned down by the economists.

This is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.

Hard times for the shipping companies. Some of the blame lies with ships' officers who are failing to put new procedures into practice.