Professor Jon Olaf Olaussen says that increasing the aquaculture industry to five times its current production now is a crazy idea. He is calling for reducing one of Norway’s largest industries.
The climate summit in Paris ended with an agreement. But how do we ensure that the agreement is translated into action?
If everyone drove electric cars, there wouldn’t be enough power to charge them all when people got home in the afternoon. The solutions could affect your wallet.
Professor Dag Svanæs has lectured at Stanford University and is inspired by the philosophers Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He has also had a furry mechanized tail that he still sometimes misses.
People in good shape are as prone to falling as others. But practicing specific balance tasks and simple exercises can help.
Are you sick of your phone’s battery dying after only a few hours? NTNU researchers are hard at work on improving the technology.
A new option for cancer treatment is just as effective as, but less toxic than similar drugs.
It took two students just two months to figure out how to control a drone using brainwaves.
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.
Some children are more aggressive than others when they have bad experiences. But they are also calmer when life is good.
Norwegian school children may have learned that Norway was once a superpower. But was Norway really an empire?
“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?
“July 22 affected individuals and Norwegian society in a way we have not experienced since World War II,” writes Tor Einar Fagerland.
Some children gain weight faster than others. Eating habits seem to have far more to say than physical activity.
With the help of new 3-D technology, you can dive underwater and swim with farmed salmon.
Two thousand years ago, Norway produced iron in significant quantities. Much of it was exported both southward and northward from Trøndelag in central Norway.
Switching to more durable asphalt could save significant amounts of money on some Norwegian roads — possibly as much as NOK several hundred million a year
If testing goes well, an invention that helps save fuel in ships may soon be in production, with the support of the British industry.
Imagine that everything in your mind had been erased, and you had to learn everything all over again. What would that process be like?
NTNU is the first Norwegian partner involved in Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative.
Where peat moss takes over in a northern lawn, it strangles almost all of its grassy neighbours. Nevertheless, there are good reasons to take care of peat moss.
See a Viking’s grave or travel to the ocean floor. New technology allows archaeologists to easily map excavation sites in 3D.
Ordinary clay can be as good as more advanced materials for capturing carbon dioxide.
Space elevators, more effective solar cells, super-fast computers. All of these technologies are dependent on new information about the characteristics of nanoparticles. Researchers in Norway are giving us this insight.
This gouge may be the result of a successful parry, says archaeologist Ingrid Ystgaard, referring to the deep notch in the shield’s protective metal boss.
Earlier this year, students and employees at NTNU’s Nanolab cut a 100-nanometre thick platinum wire. That’s a thickness of just one ten-thousandth of a millimetre.
Computer games can help improve instruction. Pupils learn more. Teachers get a better overview of what and how well their students are learning.
Substantial revenues from natural resources bring opportunities, but also problems, in developing countries. A new research project will look at best practices in resource management.
The health of people all over the world is dependent on a slew of different variables, so interdisciplinary work is vital to professionals in global health. Twenty-two European countries, the USA and South Africa are all taking part in a comprehensive Norwegian global health survey.
Mortality among childbearing mothers is still high in many countries. Simple methods can save both mother and child.
People from NTNU travel around the world to do research. Photograph Per Harald Olsen has documented a number of these trips. He also has some advice for photographers who would like to take pictures like his.
Norway needs its own climate laws, but these laws will only be effective if they are good. Bad climate policies may be worse than none at all, according to NTNU researchers and policy makers.
