Recently, research scientists heralded "a big step for mankind" – in a new shop in Trondheim, Norway which they believe will use 30 per cent less energy than other Norwegian grocery stores....
Researchers in Trondheim have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills. We all know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil...
International IT researchers have limited contact with the industry, and tend to stay in their offices, working on concepts and studies. Norwegian researchers work closely with companies – and...
The Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS) in Biskop Gunnerus gate in Oslo is buzzing. It’s not a buzz of voices, but comes from a machine in the corner – and a backup close by. It’s the...
Creative Ghanaian master’s students are learning project management from SINTEF’s Jan Alexander Langlo. The course is part of a foreign aid project which aims to get local businesses qualified as...
Two years ago Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT) introduced the steady-state and transient multiphase flow simulator LedaFlow® to the oil and gas industry. Now the version LedaFlow...
For the first time, a car manufacturer has opened the way for Norwegian research scientists to log data directly from the innermost systems of cars. If this practice becomes widespread, the...
Long pipelines crammed with electronics are being tested in the waters of Orkanger harbour. They are the first in the world able to report their technical condition to personnel onshore. By...
...A fire is raging in a large building and the fire leader is sending a message to all firefighters at the scene. But they don’t need a mobile phone – they simply check their jacket sleeves and...
Twelve monitor screens, three doctors, one engineer, a cytodiagnostician, four nurses and a patient are all needed for the trial of the new bronchoscope and its navigating system. Photo: Thor...
Researchers have created algorithms that allow viewers to report when their mobile phone, tablet or computer has a poor quality Internet TV picture. The app uses a scale of between one and five...
SINTEF scientists Mark Reed and Dag Slagstad work to predict how the ocean’s currents will move. Photo: Thor Nielsen April 22, 2010: It’s been two days since the disaster alarm has gone off in...
Polar explorer Børge Ousland and research student Sindre Sandbakk have one thing in common: they are quite happy to push their own bodies to the limit in bitter cold.Their willingness to perform...
In comparison with other fossil fuels, charcoal emits low levels of sulphur and nitrogen oxides. This would result in lower local air pollution. Photo: Thor Nielsen Branches, tops, lopwood and...
Contact Ansattinfo mangler , dep. of Medical Technology Norwegian researchers have installed a system that uses 3D ultrasound and image guidance in one of Africa's biggest children's...
Contact Dagfinn Moe, Dep. of Transport Research So now we have it in black and white – the emotional centre in young men's brains overrides the area controlling their ability to make rational...
Today, most electricity generating stations powered by geothermal energy lie in areas of high volcanic activity, such as here in Iceland. The photo shows the Krafla geothermal power station,...
The majority of those asked thought that these 'likes' helped to promote humanitarian causes and their work. Only a few users went no further than simply 'liking' organisations or...
Contacts: Marit Jagtøyen Mazzetti Nils Anders Røkke See the NORDICCS webpage Of all the CO2 that is produced in the Nordic countries, the cheapest to deal with is what is produced...
Contact Ansattinfo mangler Norway is the most important country outside EU for supply of seafood to the consumer markets in Europe. Each year, the Norwegian fleet export some 1.3 million...