People with a positive attitude are built differently
Those who believe they will be able to achieve their goals are also more passionate and have greater willpower.
Those who believe they will be able to achieve their goals are also more passionate and have greater willpower.
Two associate professors at NTNU have been awarded roughly NOK 43 million from the European Research Council to study molecular models and gene variations that can affect animal survival.
The bishop’s men plundered the king’s fortress. Then they threw a dead man into the well to poison it. Now we know more about the deceased.
Many great discoveries and inventions spring from basic research. That’s particularly true for medicine, but also for many other research areas.
It’s been 10 years since Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with their former mentor and colleague John O’Keefe. Listen to the Mosers themselves tell the story of how they came to discover grid cells, the neurons that help form a GPS in the brain.
Climate scientists often lack the information they need for their climate models. A master’s student helped to find important figures from Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria.
Say hello to the robot called Bifrost. With the help of AI technology, it uses its tactile capabilities to manipulate soft and pliable objects to order. Bifrost is in fact a world-beater.
It wasn’t that long ago that we knew very little about the state of people’s health around the world. NTNU’s new honorary doctors have used 300,000 sources to provide us with an overview.
It might seem like the world is being bombarded by one crisis after another. But what’s really happening is an increase in media coverage.
Learning from nuclear construction successes and failures can help reduce the cost of building nuclear energy in Europe. But even if these power plants turn out to be more costly than we would like, putting them to work can reduce overall energy costs.
Trade blockades are an old tool that is still used in wars. The ERC has awarded an EUR 9.9 million grant to see how significant they really are.
Objects and shapes influence language and how we see the world. The European Research Council is supporting research on this topic with a NOK 123 million Synergy Grant.
Obesity combined with the hormone disorder PCOS in mothers can cause health problems for her children both at birth and later in life.
The presidential race appears to be a dead heat ahead of the United States election on 5 November, but wokeness is ‘an unexploded bomb’.
A new test can determine if you have the right attitude to achieve your goals.
This nose has already proven capable of detecting food that has gone off. Now it’s on the trail of diseases. Best of all, this new technology is based on something you already have in your living room.
There are millions of species on Earth that we still know nothing about. Researchers call these species ‘biological dark matter’, but new methods can provide us with a better overview more quickly.
The number of Norwegian pupils who refuse to go to school is increasing. New research shows that school refusal may be linked to educational policy guidelines and the way the Norwegian school system is organized.
“Put very simply, conflicts end in one of three different ways,” says peace researcher Karin Dyrstad.
Many people can manage very well by using their cars less. But for this to happen, housing developments must be planned to make it easier. Astrid Bjørgen has been studying how this can be achieved.
A new study shows clear differences between the sexes: close family is important for girls with suicidal thoughts, whereas activities such as sports, leisure activities or other hobbies provide particularly good protection for boys.
A drug being tested for cancer treatment can probably also be used to kill bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Most Afghanistan veterans manage well, but not all. Anger, not PTSD, is the main problem.
Almost everyone agrees that having the same GP (general practitioner) over a long period of time is beneficial, but are you at risk if your GP relocates or retires?