Our green future must include industry
Researcher Markus Steen says research alone isn’t enough to make Norway’s economy greener. Industry needs to be more deeply involved with the research community at an early stage.
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Searching for answers to a century-old biological question
With the help of 58,046 fruit flies, scientists in Florida and Norway have shed light on a question that biologists have puzzled over for the last 100 years.
COPD sufferers prescribed most sedatives
New research has revealed that Norwegian COPD sufferers are prescribed even more sedatives than psychiatric patients. The researchers behind the study believe that this is problematic because the drugs in question are addictive and inhibit lung function.
Family’s hereditary cancer gene found
When almost a third of a hundred members of one family had cancer, or were cured of cancer, researchers began to look for a cancer-causing gene in the family. They found it after fifteen years of genetic testing.
Think a thought — and then take flight
It took two students just two months to figure out how to control a drone using brainwaves.
Peering into fish brains to see how they work
Transparent fish and an ability to work in the dark are key to the research of the newest group at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.
This is where future power generation in Norway will be developed
Imagine a power generation laboratory housing a generator equivalent to a 40 kilometre-long line of AA batteries connected in series. Well, now it’s here – and was formally opened by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon on 2 September.
Mosers, Kavli Institute given multimillion grant to establish a new centre of excellence
The British-born Pauline Braathen has given US $5 million to establish a new centre at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU. The Kavli Foundation has matched this donation with NOK 50 million so that the new centre will receive a NOK 100 million grant.
New flexible ticketing on buses
Soon you won’t have to worry about how to pay your bus and train fares. All you need is your mobile phone or a bank card.
Training a dog you can trust
There are six breeds of dogs that are illegal in Norway. According to dog training expert Ane Møller Gabrielsen, this ban is not supported by the science.
Listening to roads before construction
They’re going to build a new road right outside your living room window. The authorities have sent you a ‘noise map’, but what you really need is to hear what the traffic noise will sound like. Well, soon you can.
Cleaning ship emissions with metal sponge cells
By 2020, ports around the world will be implementing strict emission standards for ship exhaust. A small spinning steel sponge may be the solution for the shipbuilding industry.
Great heights and deep valleys
Some children are more aggressive than others when they have bad experiences. But they are also calmer when life is good.
What you need to know about carbon capture and storage
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide is one of the most important things we can do to prevent the most damaging effects of global warming.
Could this be the start of China’s collapse?
China’s economy has grown at record speed. Now the weakening of China’s national currency suggests that the downturn has started.
Intelligent clothing for extreme weather
Norwegian laboratories are developing technical clothing that can “sense” how your body is responding. This will make working under extreme weather conditions safer.
Book detectives solve mysteries of yesteryear
NTNU’s Gunnerus Library in Trondheim contains a number of manuscripts with unknown origins. Using modern technology, researchers aim to find some of these manuscripts’ secrets.
How to be lightning smart
During thunderstorms, when Thor the God of Thunder starts wielding his hammer, researchers know exactly what you should and shouldn’t do if you want to keep safe.
Medieval Norwegian realm comes under the microscope
Norwegian school children may have learned that Norway was once a superpower. But was Norway really an empire?
Is the “new” Norwegian wolf really wild?
Loved and hated. Admired and feared. Almost wiped out and restored. Wolves have a long and varied history in Norway and trigger strong feelings on both sides of the issue.
Finding a good home for dementia sufferers
Norway is evaluating innovative housing options for dementia sufferers. Perhaps small serviced housing projects and dementia ‘villages’ will provide a more normal life than nursing homes and institutions?
Language and perception in children with autism
An EU-funded research programme coordinated out of NTNU called LanPercept looks at language and perception in autism as just one of 15 projects.
Bad project management costs Norway millions
NTNU professor Wenche Aarseth collected information from several hundred project managers who together had done business in 39 countries. These answers gave her a recipe for success for global projects that cross national borders.
Norwegian agri-tech goes global
Norwegian manufacturers of agricultural technology are now getting active support from researchers. Such companies will benefit from new applications and exposure to a global market.
Drilling down to understand sea ice
Global warming is upending virtually everything that scientists know about the Arctic ice cap. During the first half of 2015, a multinational team of researchers froze the RV Lance into the Arctic ice to learn more about how this ice has changed. NTNU researchers were among the scientists seeking to learn more about this changing environment.
Cycling helps ease arthritis pains
After ten weeks of hard workouts on a spinning bike twice a week, a group of women with arthritis found that their joints were less inflamed.
Uncovering the secrets of immune system invaders
Some bacteria and viruses take advantage of the way our immune system works to infect us. NTNU researchers are uncovering the mechanisms by which this trickery takes place.
The jewel in the crown
“Dynamic positioning” has been hailed as “the jewel in the crown” and Norway’s greatest engineering feat since World War II. But what is it?
The day terrorism came to Norway
“July 22 affected individuals and Norwegian society in a way we have not experienced since World War II,” writes Tor Einar Fagerland.
Kavli researchers find speed cells in the brain
A “Flintstones car” helps neuroscientists discover speed cells in the brain, a critical part of the brain’s navigation system.
Eating habits matter most when children gain weight
Some children gain weight faster than others. Eating habits seem to have far more to say than physical activity.
Discovery Channel Canada visits NTNU and Trondheim Fjord
The science program Daily Planet has 8 million viewers. During the last week of June, a production crew from the program filmed an expedition to look for a plane wreck from the Second World War that is located on the bottom of Trondheim Fjord.