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International requirements, collaboration across national frontiers and the need for simulator training held centre stage at an industry meeting on emergency and ocean towing in Tromsø. This...

SINTEF has experienced a downturn in its financial results for 2015. The result before expenditures linked to discontinuation of the pension scheme was NOK 60 million. However, the overall result...

Industry, biologists and engineers will need to cooperate more closely if Norway is to maintain its position as a leading marine nation. This is the opinion of the well-known BI Norwegian...

The NORDICCS project is a collaborative research project between leading CCS research institutions in the five Nordic countries. Together we have developed a “roadmap” for CCS. A workshop on...

Packaged meat products can be found today on fresh food counters with labels declaring their level of tenderness and tenderisation process. However, the consumer has no guarantee of the veracity...

Subsea installations can get longer life-time with self-repairing materials. Illustration: SINTEF Energy The vital insulating material which encloses sensitive high voltage equipment may now be...

Many people have thought of it before. Now it is coming to pass: a system that will reward decisionmakers and building owners who adopt environmental measures in their buildings. The system...

Put your foot down – or just hang back? Experiments show that subjects who made a quick decision to take a risk had significantly more “white matter” in their brains than those who stopped,...

The most elaborate travel-wear in Norway keeps the body cool in hot helicopter cabins, but will turn into a heat-retaining suit if the helicopter should fall into the sea.   Tests in...

Norwegian scientists will remove sulphur compounds from Indian petrol utilising custom made, porous materials in the refineries.  (Photo: Morguefile). For the past five years, scientists from...

...- Invitation to international conference on waste and biomass combustion SINTEF is project manager for the greatest European Commission initiative in bio-energy ever. The conference is a part of...

The world’s first induction heater with super conductors is based on a Trondheim invention. This technology can generate large savings for the aluminium industry. Magne Runde and Frode Sætre...

Fire researchers are sounding the alarm: without innovative thinking on the fire prevention front, more and more old people will die in house fires. If you are over seventy years old, your...

Singapore is considering moving its power stations, water reservoirs, harbour warehouses and waste combustion plants below ground. Scientists from Trondheim are helping to shape the first...

Norwegians who suffer from rare disorders feel that they are left to face their problems alone. Since they often fall outwith the conceptual universes of the experts, they find it difficult to...

These are the partners of the SOLVit CO₂ research programme Aker Clean Carbon: Aker Clean Carbon is a global supplier of cost-effective CO₂ capture plants and technology. The company offers...

Ultrasonics improves surgeons’ view when they remove tumours from the pituitary gland Ultrasonics: Operating on the pituitary involves leading an ultrasonic instrument in through the nose. On the...

Nanoproducts have entered our lives, almost without being noticed. Artificial particles end up in the atmosphere, earth and water. What happens to them? by Christina B. Winge and Åse Dragland...

Jorunn Skjermo is doing her best to ensure that cars will obtain green fuel from the sea Jorunn Skjermo at SINTEF cultivates kelp. Photo: Geir Mogen. Ropes smothered in billowing brown marine...

When the Norwegian dairy company TINE makes cheese, it deliberately adds certain organisms to the raw milk. Others get there by chance and shape the end-product. But such games of chance will soon...