The world’s smallest autofocus lens for mobile devices is ready, and Apple and Nokia are among the companies interested in introducing it. Six years ago a group of SINTEF research scientists at...
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Could European air traffic controllers manage more flights with the help of modern productivity gains? Experts from Austria and Norway intend to answer that question. Frequentis – an Austrian...
The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to produce geothermal...
Researchers are developing data systems which can adapt in the face of virus and hacker attacks. If software components are attacked they will be replaced automatically without any inconvenience...
Nine out of ten Norwegian fish-processing plants have closed, and a great deal of fish leave the country without being processed. However, according to a recent SINTEF report, the Norwegian...
The Norwegian climate has always placed heavy demands on building design. Global warming is putting it under even more strain. Norwegian buildings are to be made more robust against climatic...
Until recently, platforms were an essential element of offshore petroleum production; but no longer, thanks to Norwegian multiphase technology. In rural surroundings at Tiller,...
Three-quarters of all the disabled persons in the world live in low-income countries. They have missed out on measures aimed at relieving poverty Collecting data on the living conditions...
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1996: Valuable concrete giants
The first Norwegian field developers found it sufficient to copy the steel platforms used in the Gulf of Mexico. The foundations of the next stage in the North Sea saga were laid entirely in...
Contact person: Åge Gellein Larsen A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful. Cellulose can...
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Little creatures do great damage
Pink and insidious: a tiny animal has become an expensive neighbour for fish farmers. Now scientists intend to make it hot for the little pest, and without using toxic chemicals. The scientific...
Contact Ansattinfo mangler Jellyfish populations have exploded in many Norwegian fjords in recent years. For more than ten years the inner Trondheimsfjord ecosystem has been dominated by the...