The new face of the sea
We have reached the limits of the sea’s ability to sustain fisheries. We have to change our aquaculture practises.
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Fighting oil spills with bubbles
Curtains of air bubbles are turning out to be a new method of fighting oil spills.
Making the invisible visible
A new camera exposes secrets hidden on a surface: spots of cancer on a face. Human remains on a hill. The discoverer of this camera calls it the “PryJector.”
Safe on the seabed
We can see what sticks up out of the sea – a big tower with rotor blades that are seventy meters long. But what does it look like underwater?
An ear for success
The idea of an intelligent earplug was conceived over a cup of coffee. Today, this special hearing protection unit is the best of its type in the world.
Paper chase
Guy Lönngren builds recycled student housing out of cardboard.
New membrane catches CO2
An inexpensive and eco-friendly plastic membrane separates CO2 from other gases.
Basically good?
Experts believe that we can pump CO2, the most common greenhouse gas, into reservoirs in the North Sea. It would essentially eliminate one of this century’s problems. But is largescale CO2 storage on the Norwegian continental shelf really that straight forward?
Cool undershirts
This is the clothing that fire-fighters have been waiting for: an intelligent undershirt that cools overheated bodies
A LITTLE PIECE OF SWEDEN
We Norwegians had hoped to pioneer “green” thermal power generation.However,we have been pipped at the post by Sweden,which is about to build the world’s first power station with CO2 capture – in Germany.
Recycling or degradation?
We consciously wash plastic containers and take out the bags for recycling. But is this beneficial? Can the option of an additive that breaks down the plastic be just as good?
Energy saving deluxe
Here are Norway’s most energy efficient homes. Total energy consumption? Just over one-third of the national average.
Rock hard workouts
Physical activity can help reduce women’s risk of developing osteoporosis. But taking a stroll simply isn’t enough.
The threat inherent in our imaginations
“Money? For something that may never pay?” grumbles the dull troll called Society every time a call is made for an increase in funding for basic research. And here is the explanation:
Not so lady-like?
At first she is shy and reserved, just like a nice girl ought to be. Then she is transformed into a macho chick.
Zero grip for bacteria
A newly developed surface on implanted catheter may prevent complications from bacteria and infection.
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.