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The subject of the EU’s BRIDGE project is transnational and interagency cooperation in the event of terror attacks, natural disasters and industrial accidents. The project is being led by SINTEF...

Contact Markedsdirektør, Steffen Møller-Holst The first forklift trucks in Europe that will run on fuel cells and with hydrogen in their tanks are on the way to the market. No fewer than...

Contact Senior Scientist, Ansattinfo mangler According to a theory advanced by a SINTEF materials scientist, a mixture of water from sprinkler systems and molten aluminium from melted aircraft...

What really happened  when 25,000 people missed the Denmark vs. Norway game this autumn because Canal+ had problems with its servers? ”The systems experienced much greater loads than they...

Modernisation was the watchword of the 50s. Norway entered the decade by creating two national centres for applied technological research: SI and SINTEF.   The Central Institute of...

In 1958, Norwegian building researchers published the first of a series of construction detail leaflets. Research results and practical experience were to be disseminated in such a way that they...

Millions of mobile telephones, the world's first floating wind turbine and the landing system that brings natural gas up from Norway's first deepwater field have one thing in common; expertise...

Just before Christmas, 80 workers on the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea started their shifts by putting an intelligent plug in their ears. This tiny device doesn’t look all that...

Contact: Ana Maria Martinez Kai Tang Norwegian scientists are extracting rare earth metals from scrap. Their aim is to prevent scarcity of materials from holding back energy-conservation efforts....

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. General...

A full 90% of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The internet companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilised. Is this a good thing? By Åse...

When did you last book a flight? Or buy something online? Was it painless – or did you have a poor user experience? The number of digital services that we have to deal with has exploded. They are...

The innumerable divisions of the bronchi often turn the hunt for tumours in the lungs into a game of chance. But soon, lung specialists will be able to navigate accurately inside the airways by...

Backed up by science, a Norwegian start-up launches “fishing luck in a tube”. The Norwegian research institutes NOFIMA and SINTEF and newly launched company Polybait have been utilising odours...

Backed up by science, a Norwegian start-up launches “fishing luck in a tube”. The Norwegian research institutes NOFIMA and SINTEF and newly launched company Polybait have been utilising odours...

Contact Ansattinfo mangler  Relevant info Dep. of Industrial Management Research on management at Hydro has brought social anthropologist and SINTEF researcher Emil A. Røyrvik (39) SINTEF’s...

The combination of waves and cold sea water make the coast of northern Norway an ideal place to cultivate the brown algae badderlocks. This nutritious macroalgae is an excellent alternative to...

At Forus just outside Stavanger, seven men and two women sit in what looks very like a dimly lit cinema auditorium. They are in the premises of the simulator company Oiltec Solutions. Expressions...

This everyday example is quite trivial, and doesn’t really reflect the grand vision conjured up for experts by the term “The Internet of Things” (IoT). However, it does give us some indication –...

In the robotics lab at SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing, researchers Øystein Skotheim and Pål Ystgaard have succeeded in giving these advanced machines 3D vision, enabling them to perform...