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.
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.
The number of heart attacks increases on days with higher levels of pollution.
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.
Which chemicals are best suited to be used as drugs? The use of a computer simulation to find out saves time, money – and animal lives.
A snake robot can perform life-saving operations during a fire, an explosion and in other hostile environments.
Plastic littering the countryside could soon be a thing of the past. Researchers have come up with an additive that enables plastic bags to be quickly decomposed by sun and rain.
Many of us live in the delusion that the apparently […]
Several of the world’s best known cultural treasures are located in areas prone to earthquakes. A new metal alloy will secure their existence.
The temperature in and around your ear rises when you use a mobile phone – by at least 2 degrees.
Counting fish is difficult. But in the future laser technology may make the task fast and efficient.
Invisible but invaluable: raised in steel tanks, a tiny marine creature is capable of producing Omega-3 fat, a product in great demand.
Når fikk han egentlig blåmerket – og hvordan? Optisk teknologi kan gi svaret.
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.
Oil in hard rock types under the ocean’s floor can be difficult to find. A new search method may change all that.
The days of the scalpel may soon be numbered – at least when it comes to examining areas in the upper layers of the skin.
The Swedes and the Finns earn big money on mobile telephony. But the system they use is Norwegian.
The days of the scalpel may soon be numbered – at least when it comes to examining areas in the upper layers of the skin.
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.
While security on Statoil’s oil rigs gets top marks, there were Wild West conditions on board the boats in the company’s service.
Wintertime may give young salmon a break from swift currents and keen fly fishermen, but other challenges abound.
What do cement floors, earthquakes and broken cups have in common? A magic number.
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.
A Norwegian invention may reduce the number of fatal accidents between trailer trucks and cars.
Most fish larvae have nothing but cartilage for their skeletons […]
Lecturers can use the pen to “virtually” write and draw on a screen or wall.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Gale force winds, a 60-kilo test dummy, and one of […]
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.
Medical researchersconduct cancer research on a primitive fish, and make astonishing finds.