Zero grip for bacteria
A newly developed surface on implanted catheter may prevent complications from bacteria and infection.
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Measures your walk
The way you walk can reveal a lot of useful information about your health.
Absorbing sound with hard materials
Sound-absorbing metal plates seem impossible – but they are not.
Encrypted crimes
Criminals have discovered cryptography. By encrypting their messages they can communicate with each other undetected.
Versatile plastic chip
A little plastic chip makes it possible to identify recycled bottles, assure the quality of food and measure our blood sugar levels.
Á la Jules Verne
A spectacular platform has been designed to drift across the oceans of the world with the aid of the currents and the wind.
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
A pine took root in the early Iron Age and was felled towards the end of the Viking Period. Last year archaeologists rediscovered it – the stuff that an archaeologist’s dreams are made of.
2020: AN AQUACULTURE ODYSSEY
Free-range farmed fish. Sea cages that sail off to the south and deliver their fish by themselves. Large autonomous fish farms that float unmoored in the sea. This could be the aquaculture of the future.
Snake robot to the rescue
A snake robot can perform life-saving operations during a fire, an explosion and in other hostile environments.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Plastic littering the countryside could soon be a thing of the past. Researchers have come up with an additive that enables plastic bags to be quickly decomposed by sun and rain.
Scientific dreamers
Many of us live in the delusion that the apparently […]
Super net keeps Pharaohs in place
Several of the world’s best known cultural treasures are located in areas prone to earthquakes. A new metal alloy will secure their existence.
One herring, two herring
Counting fish is difficult. But in the future laser technology may make the task fast and efficient.
Making food from water
Invisible but invaluable: raised in steel tanks, a tiny marine creature is capable of producing Omega-3 fat, a product in great demand.
Better skiwax
With a little help from SINTEF, the ski-wax manufacturer Swix has developed a wax that has proved to be a winner with professional skiers. The secret? Nanoparticles.
Inventor of the GSM system
The Swedes and the Finns earn big money on mobile telephony. But the system they use is Norwegian.
Your daily dose
The days of the scalpel may soon be numbered – at least when it comes to examining areas in the upper layers of the skin.
Stargazing
They are working on one of the European Space Agency’s challenges: to collect the light from six telescopes in an optical fibre measuring just 1/50 mm. The goal is to find signs of life in distant space.
The last cowboys of the sea
While security on Statoil’s oil rigs gets top marks, there were Wild West conditions on board the boats in the company’s service.
Six feet under – The ice
Wintertime may give young salmon a break from swift currents and keen fly fishermen, but other challenges abound.
Tough little electric car
The first thing that the scientists did was to build a mobile phone battery that runs on metal plates and air. Now a somewhat larger version is on the way – for electric cars!
Quality cork for a noble product
Norwegian researchers are developing a tool to check the quality of cork. This will prevent bark from unnecessarily being peeled from oak trees and give the owners more control over their product.
Do you remember?
Is it easy for you to remember the names of people you meet? Can you remember which direction you came from when you leave a shopping centre? Do you get high scores on trivia tests? Then you likely have a highly developed hippocampus.
Cold war against hydrates
Researchers are on the brink of a breakthrough. They want to prove that oil can be transported from the bottom of the ocean in bare steel pipes – without insulation or warming devices. This smells of money.