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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...

Aluminium components make vehicles lighter, which reduces fuel consumption. If a Norwegian project is successful, manufacturing them will soon also be less energy-intensive. by Svein Tønseth...

Of all the CO₂ that is produced in the Nordic countries, the cheapest to deal with is what is produced together with natural gas from offshore gas-fields. Just a short time after Norway’s “...

Researchers will spend the next two years gathering meteorological data from Svalbard in the north to Nittedal in the south. The aim is to find out how much satellite signals are adversely...

France is going to test an artificial heart on patients. The heart will contain a Norwegian pressure sensor. By Åse Dragland The French company Carmat will now proceed with full-scale testing...

In this experiment, researchers used the "OceanEye" system supplied by Maritime Robotics. The balloon, which is equipped with a remote-controlled camera, can remain airborne and will supply...

The EU-funded research project EM Safety is the most comprehensive study yet carried out to identify different sources of magnetic fields in electric cars. Illustration: Geir Mogen/SINTEF....

At the office or the airport, or sitting in Starbucks, we have access to a high-capacity wireless network. We can easily watch a video on the PC screen. But as soon as we move out of range, we...