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When the elderly suffer falls, many agencies should be alerted so that help can arrive as quickly as possible. So researchers, students and physiotherapists are trying to connect fall alarms to...

In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold and shiny new coins....

SINTEF Materials & Chemistry and ECN signed an agreement to strengthen their long-standing collaboration in the field of crystalline silicon photovoltaics. With this agreement SINTEF and ECN...

Anita Fossdal and Fride Vullum-Bruer want the i-Phone’s battery to last longer – even when we are on Svalbard, and even when we have downloaded a whole load of apps. On the Gløshaugen Campus...

Norwegian scientists are extracting rare earth metals from scrap. Their aim is to prevent scarcity of materials from holding back energy-conservation efforts. Rare earth metals are essential...

Researchers are working on monitoring vortices created by aircraft during take-off and landing. The objective is both to maintain the level of safety and to improve the capacity of airports....

The Norwegian company SpinChip aims to help doctors analyse patients’ blood samples on the spot and provide immediate results. Early, correct diagnoses are often of decisive importance in...

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. In the early 1950s...

China has already donned the yellow jersey in building first-generation carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants. Now a Norwegian-Chinese “team-tempo” squad has been set up to tackle the next...

SINTEF ICT is a world leader in manufacturing integrated 3D radiation sensors. ICT scientists at SINTEF are involved in a project to fabricate 3D radiation sensors, and for the past five years...

One of Norway's national centres for research on environmentally friendly technology is being helped by the film industry to show the world why carbon capture and storage (CCS) is important....

A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective CO₂ capture technology that could herald a new generation...

Statoil and SINTEF have signed a new long-term framework research agreement. The two companies have been cooperating closely on research ever since the start of Norway's oil epoch, and Statoil...

The research institutes SINTEF in Norway, TNO in the Netherlands and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) in France are joining forces in the newly established “Tri4CCS Alliance”, which aims to make...

Kongsberg Oil &Gas Technologies (KOGT) recently introduced the multiphase flow simulator LedaFlow to the oil and gas industry. The simulator, which KOGT has progressively developed into a...

It should soon become easier to identify measures that will also be effective in the long term when outbreaks of disease in salmon farms need to be prevented or combatted. This is the goal of...

An underwater “field” as big as a Norwegian county could provide two billion litres of kelp-based fuel a year. SINTEF is currently establishing a centre of expertise that will enable us to...

Contact Project Coordinator of DemoCLOCK, Shahriar Amini A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective...

Contact Research Scientist, Stephan Kubowicz The first steps have been taken towards rainwear which repairs itself In co-operation with research scientists and industry colleagues in eight...

The EU wants electricity distribution systems that can utilise more solar and wind energy – and sixteen European partners from ten countries are now playing a key role in preparing for them. The...