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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.
Mobile phones warm your ear
The temperature in and around your ear rises when you use a mobile phone – by at least 2 degrees.
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.
Dating yellow bruises
Når fikk han egentlig blåmerket – og hvordan? Optisk teknologi kan gi svaret.
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.
Angles on oil
Oil in hard rock types under the ocean’s floor can be difficult to find. A new search method may change all that.
Using light under your skin
The days of the scalpel may soon be numbered – at least when it comes to examining areas in the upper layers of the skin.
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.
Magiske 0,8
What do cement floors, earthquakes and broken cups have in common? A magic number.
Help for headaches
Are you plagued by chronic headaches? The reason could be
that you stop breathing in your sleep. If that is your problem, help is available.
Stopping dangerous trailer skids
A Norwegian invention may reduce the number of fatal accidents between trailer trucks and cars.
Microscopic art and photography: Tora Bardal
Most fish larvae have nothing but cartilage for their skeletons […]
Talking back the chalk
Lecturers can use the pen to “virtually” write and draw on a screen or wall.
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.
Optimal ski jump
Gale force winds, a 60-kilo test dummy, and one of […]
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.
From speech to text
Legars handskrift kan vere håplaus å dekode. Men talen deira kan snart bli forstått av ei maskin.
A nose for better vaccinations
A recently developed nasal spray could revolutionize vaccination techniques.
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.