Half of those that trigger the security alarm, are demanding regular care services and practical assistance. Photo: Thinkstock What are the alert systems used for? How do those...
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The wood-burning stove gives the room a focal point that generates HYGGE, even if you’re not sitting around it. Here are some advices for how to light the fire. Ill: Shutterstock LOG FIRES: Open...
On 4 October, the Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications, Ketil Solvik-Olsen, will open the launching conference of Norsk Forum for Autonome skip (Norwegian Forum for Autonomous...
Looking at today’s society, it’s possible to be fooled by an optimistic illusion: It seems as if well-educated parents understand the importance of letting their children express themselves....
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Extreme cold weather clothing
Cold, wet, dark and sometimes loud. Work clothing for northern areas requires technical materials and high level of comfort and functionality. Photo loaned from Wenaas Workwear as WORK CLOTHING:...
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Remote presence
Remote presence is a remotely controlled robot installed inside wind turbine nacelle. Remote inspection using the robot is an alternative to expensive and time consuming manned inspection. The...
Norwegian Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker (Con.) recently visited MARINTEK, accompanied by a delegation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. The group was in Trondheim in...
A major international collaborative project involving 12 partners from eight countries and worth €7.3million is set to drive forward development of the next generation of floating wind...
For the first time, SINTEF heads the lists that show where technology and science students at NTNU and the University of Oslo would really like to work. Every year all the companies, research...
In the project "Establishment of process for the production of membrane elements", Reinertsen, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing cooperate to develop an...
The Research Council of Norway has announced the establishment of 17 new centers for research-based innovation (SFI). Klima 2050 is one of these, and Norway finally gets a Centre for climate...
Food retains its freshness longer if it is kept in a state somewhere between fresh and frozen. This method ought to be more widely used because it helps to improve the utilisation of raw...
Using sound images and a touch screen, the user can generate the sounds of an everyday situation, such as a workplace canteen. Photo: Thor Nielsen/SINTEF. As many as 700,000 people in Norway have...
Technology used in the crumple zones of cars can avert serious explosions in transformers, believe researchers. "Transformer failures have cost human lives when things have gone seriously...
They’re standing in a small circle around a net pen out in the ocean. Their job is to maintain the net pens, de-louse the salmon, and carry out the many other tasks essential to the running of a...
In the future, Norwegian hydropower reservoirs will be important when the wind doesn’t blow hard enough across the wind-turbines on the Continent. When it is blowing again, cheap surplus power can...
This week, research scientists from eight countries are meeting in Trondheim to discuss the next steps in the campaign against antibiotic resistance. Researchers are currently developing novel...
The Norwegian silicon industry is reducing dust concentrations in the air around its furnace operators. In order to remove dust during tapping, Bernd Wittgens of SINTEF (left) and Halvard Tveit...
In the hope of contributing to the development of new medicines, SINTEF’s biotechnologists, represented here by senior scientist Geir Klinkenberg, are hunting for promising genes in marine...
The leading research organizations TNO (the Netherlands) and SINTEF (Norway) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and market their joint services on a number of fields of...