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Many think mainly on medication and pain relief when life is ebbing away, but spiritual, existential and practical needs are also present. Photo: ThinkStock Perhaps the GP hasn’t seen the patient...

SINTEF researchers Marco Povoli and Angela Kok have contributed towards the development of a microscopic sensor that measures what no other sensor can – the radiation doses absorbed by individual...

Researcher Andy Booth, SINTEF (behind) and NTNU partner Iurgi Imanol Salaverria-Zabalegui grow algae that will later be "exposed" to micro plastics. Photo: Thor Nielsen. Annually, about...

Cities are growing, and growth requires large amounts of asphalt and concrete. The demand may exceed the local natural resources and have an effect on the climate. Photo: Thinkstock. ASPHALT AND...

See the story behind GasSecure, who developed the technology in close cooperation with SINTEF. Photography, directing and screenplay: Ingvil Snøfugl. Last year German company Dräger bought...

ANIMATION: The new robot functions as a train in horizontal pipes but manoeuvres sideways into a vertical pipe and twists vertically upwards. Illustration: SINTEF ICT Industrial pipe systems are...

HYDRAULIC PRESSURE: The energy to move the joints in the snake comes from a hydraulic water pressure of 100 bar – strong enough to lift a car off the ground and for the snake to break through a...

CO₂ has become the symbol of human consumption and industrial production. The gas that pours out of cement factory chimneys and belches out of exhaust pipes and combustion plants is the reason...

Utilising solar cell materials that would otherwise end up on waste sites, is an important aim of the EU "EcoSolar" project, which is coordinated by SINTEF Research Scientist Martin Bellmann....

Until salmon lice can be brought under control, the smartest response would be to reduce fish farming production, says Professor Jon Olaf Olaussen . Photo: Thinkstock FISH FARMING: How much...

Norwegian aquaculture aims to increase their production in the future. Safety must be prioritized in the development of the industry. Workers in aquaculture has the second highest accident...

NOWIcob is a life-cycle profit analysis tool for offshore wind farms. A tool to simulate the O&M cost of an offshore wind farm over the lifetime. NOWIcob can serve as a decisison support tool...

The World Health Organization has estimated that about a third of all persons over the age of 65 fall every year, and that 50 per cent of all injury-related hospital admissions in this group are...

The vision of SFI Manufacturing is to show how sustainable manufacturing in a high-cost country like Norway is possible, and what it takes to improve global competitiveness. The research centre...

Nordic Capital has acquired the SINTEF spin-off RESMAN for more than NOK 1 billion. "This sale demonstrates yet again that we deliver world class technologies", says Anders Lian at SINVENT...

...3D-printed moulds in plastic already give Rottefella big cost reductions. To the left: John Bratland. Rottefella, Bjørn Lie, OM BE Plast, and Erik Andreassen, SINTEF. If you want to...

...'Kompaktor' – a machine developed by Orkel. It has the unique ability to compact and package a variety of bulk materials – everything from maize and chippings to cod heads, providing...

Cold conditions: A single crack can result in brittle fracture by which the material breaks in two in just a couple of seconds. Photo: Ragnhild Lundmark Daae The oil industry is heading north. It...

This figure shows the cardiac valves and an outline of the ventricles, membranes and cardiac valves. The three sensors are located in each ventricle chamber and in the outlet to the aorta. Ill.:...

We have been working on the problem for several years, and we are now getting close to our goal,” says Thor-Erik Hansen of SINTEF ICT. A (left): A flat X-ray detector needs radiation from above...