On Friday 19 September SINTEF and the University of Oslo (UiO) celebrated the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Laboratory, known as 'MiNaLab', in Oslo...
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Contact us: Inger Anne Tøndel SINTEF has, under contract for the Norwegian Agency for Public Sector Management and eGovernment (Difi), carried out a needs assessment within public...
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Greener ship propellers
New technology almost halves the amount of metal that has to be melted in order to cast a propeller blade. This was tested for the first time on an industrial scale at Oshaug Metall in Molde....
These nets can be as much as one kilometre in circumference when deployed, and a single cast can result in a catch of up to 1000 tonnes. This is an enormous volume of fish, and means that the...
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Jacket works like a mobile phone
...A fire is raging in a large building and the fire leader is sending a message to all firefighters at the scene. But they don’t need a mobile phone – they simply check their jacket sleeves and...
Insurance companies are seeing an increase in the number of fraudulent claims they receive. This is particularly worrying given that we know that fake news spreads ten times faster than the...
Sustainable shipping and increased value creation in Norwegian industry are the goals for one of the world's largest maritime research centres. 60 of the project's partners met in Trondheim...
The research center Zero Emissions Metal Production (FME ZeMe) aims to develop solutions that contribute to a carbon-neutral metal industry in Norway by 2050. The Norwegian metal industry, the...
The SINTEF-sponsored EERA DeepWind offshore wind energy R&I conference has just announced that papers related to its most recent edition have been published. A total of 50 papers from EERA...
Something that researchers are very eager to find out about is whether e-scooters have any impacts on our health. Stock photo: iStock Notes The NPRA can use its road network design strategies to...
Would you pay 1% more for a magazine if it could reduce the CO2 emissions associated with its production by 80%? Or 0.5% more for an avocado for a 35% reduction in emissions? Or 2% more in tolls...
Founder Trond Lysklætt in front of the submersible cage in the Ocean Laboratory. Photo: Henriette Louise Krogness, SINTEF Ocean Standard No question where the founders plan to test their...