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

Heavy goods vehicles on Norwegian roads will soon be checked and weighed automatically – while on the road.

Heavy goods vehicles on Norwegian roads will soon be checked and weighed automatically – while on the road.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is taking over a collection of 6.6 kilometres of shallow rock cores from the Norwegian continental shelf from SINTEF.

SINTEF has established a research centre for multiphase flow technology. The centre strengthens an already world-leading research group. The new Multiphase Flow Centre includes researchers and laboratories from several parts of SINTEF into a single...

A new-born “mole” homes in on small oil reservoirs – an almost untapped source of income.

Jellyfish populations have exploded in many Norwegian fjords in recent years. For more than ten years the inner Trondheimsfjord ecosystem has been dominated by the big jellyfish Periphylla periphylla. Fishing nets are filled with this species that...

Researchers have recently succeeded in doubling survival rates among lobster larvae under farmed conditions. This could boost populations of a species threatened in the wild.

Researchers aim to make it just as economic to process fish in Norway as to send them to China.

Norway is helping Africa’s youngest oil nation with a prescription for prosperity – and is finding out that learning goes both ways.

Drilling an oil well is not what it used to be. The job needs its own special tools, the dexterity of a pilot, and bundles of experience.

A robot is now being built to help stroke patients with training, motivation and walking

SINTEF, as part of the CCS Leadership Coalition, writes to President of European Commission calling for help getting CCS back on track.

The sport of cross-country skiing has always been preoccupied with its skis and waxing. Research now demonstrates that to shave off those extra hundredths of a second, competitive skiers should pay more attention to their clothing.

SINTEF intends to try and measure the noise generated by individual cars in traffic. This information will form one of several types of data registered at a measurement station.