Young people can be helped to develop more grit

A recent study shows that a new programme can increase ‘grit’ and self-efficacy in adolescents. Approximately 16,000 young people will soon have access to this programme each year.

Electric cars

Improving the range of electric vehicles

If electric vehicles were lighter, they would also be more energy-efficient. Not surprisingly, this is a problem researchers are working on – using aluminium.

Infant receiving an oral polio vaccination. Photographed in Sokoto, Nigeria.

Identifying health problems of the future

It wasn’t that long ago that we knew very little about the state of people’s health around the world. NTNU’s new honorary doctors have used 300,000 sources to provide us with an overview.

Will wokeness derail the Democrats?

The presidential race appears to be a dead heat ahead of the United States election on 5 November, but wokeness is ‘an unexploded bomb’.

Found hundreds of species using DNA barcoding

There are millions of species on Earth that we still know nothing about. Researchers call these species ‘biological dark matter’, but new methods can provide us with a better overview more quickly.