Wireless ocean monitoring
Wireless sensor networks work well in monitoring the oceans. The concept has been tested and found to be watertight.
Problems with maths?
Troubles with handwriting – and motor skills? The explanation for your difficulties may be in the workings of the cells in your eyes.
Warfare on weeds
Herbicide consumption could be cut in half if farmers sprayed only weeds instead of whole fields.
Health insurance and sick leave
Health insurance is being marketed as a measure to reduce […]
Poetic activism
THE TRONDHEIM ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS: Five wooden sculptures, 3.5 […]
Thought bank
A group of young psychiatric patients in mid-Norway will be […]
Tunnel vision
Dark tunnels make drivers feel insecure. Better lighting technology can help.
The coral reef conundrum
NEW PROJECT: Life in coral reefs. Why are coral reef fishes coloured the way they are?
Autonomous robots at sea
This boat has no captain. Nor is it remotely controlled. It nevertheless manoeuvres safely between other vessels.
Cool calculations
How much cold can we actually tolerate without affecting our performance?
Cheese that will please
Researchers search for new bacteria to enhance Norwegian cheese production.
A network apart
Genetically, we are almost the same as chimpanzees. But an important difference is how our genes form highly complex networks.
Water mix produces electricity
The world’s first prototype of a saline power plant demonstrates a simple – and surprising – principle: mixing freshwater and saltwater can produce electricity.
Fishy business
Thanks to two researchers and a chef, miracles have taken place in this aquarium.
Inside a moth’s brain
A moth’s brain is smaller than a pinhead. But there’s a lot going on inside.
Robots with Argus eyes
A finely tuned robot glance can detect imperfections in roe and fish – faster than any human eyes.
New approach to offshore anchors
Maybe it looks like a giant arrow or a rocket, but this 13 metre-long, 80-tonne anchor is currently being tested as a new mooring concept for offshore installations.
Software that travels
New software adapts to changing battery and Internet connections.
Fire and ice?
No, this isn’t ice, but hydrates, ice-like crystals that are […]
Got the “old and sick in the city” blues
If you are old and sick, you are less likely […]
Power play for wild salmon
Output power is an approach to generating electricity from hydropower […]
Faster, greener air transport
Together with SINTEF ICT, industrial companies from Ireland, Sweden and […]
Post on three wheels
NEW PRODUCT: Using a bicycle when delivering mail and parcels […]
Africans with disabilities
For some time, figures describing the living conditions of people […]
Speed cameras
Figures from the Directorate of Police show that men over […]
A different kind of cannibal
Biologists from NTNU and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research […]
Better planning of operations
Modern hospitals face serious planning challenges – for example in […]
Social change via the Internet
The EU’s “Citizen Media – Social Change” project, which ran […]
The invisible technology
Nanoproducts have slipped into our lives, almost without being noticed. Man-made particles end up in the air, soil and water. What happens to them?
Robot kids
Their brains are still no more advanced than that of a one-year-old, but scientists want robots to be as smart as teenagers – at least.
Super bed sheet
A specially modified, millimetre-thick, super-absorbent bed sheet solves delivery-room problems.
The genes decide
What causes pre-eclampsia during pregnancy? The answer lies in the mother’s DNA. And perhaps in the child’s father’s.