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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.
Magiske 0,8
What do cement floors, earthquakes and broken cups have in common? A magic number.
Microscopic art and photography: Tora Bardal
Most fish larvae have nothing but cartilage for their skeletons […]
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!
The healing powers of roseroot
A magic plant called roseroot grows wild in Norway. Roseroot helps improve memory and the immune system and stabilizes cholesterol levels, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
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.
Slimy, disgusting and useful
Medical researchersconduct cancer research on a primitive fish, and make astonishing finds.
Putting a face on hydrogen
Scandinavian-designed hydrogen filling stations will soon be in use in Iceland. The pump is designed to tell consumers they’re purchasing an environmentally friendly product.
Shifting sculptures
An unusual marriage between robotics and engineering sciences has given birth to a new kind of art: interactive sculpture that moves and changes the way it looks in response to people and its surroundings.
Underground in New York
Norwegian scientists are key figures in the first major expansion of New York’s subway system since 1930.
A dollar a week
They have given us nerves, anxiety, paranoia, psychosis, depression, phobia and various derangements. The list of miseries is long, from birth trauma via bed-wetting and many mid-life crises to potency problems and Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, psychologists have come up with findings on something nice – happiness.
Does my child have cerebral palsy?
In a research laboratory in Trondheim, a physiotherapist is using […]
Let there be light!
Do you hunger for daylight indoors? A glass plate or some prisms can give you more of it.
Am I really a bad guy?
Middle-aged man, white collar, briefcase in one hand, shotgun in the other. Staring down the barrel of his gun, he despairs: “Am I the bad guy?
Do you see the pattern?
How does pattern recognition make sure that the bottle bank pays out the correct refund, that the farmer sprays only the weeds in his fields, and that Hydro Aluminium saves money?
Preventing the bends
Two researchers at NTNU have discovered a new biochemical process that could revolutionize the treatment and prevention of decompression sickness.
Looking through you
This is how doctors are looking inside your body in the operating theatre. The technique enables doctors to use keyhole surgery for cancer operations that would otherwise require major surgery.