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Virtual car crashes

Virtual testing of safety barriers will save Norway a great deal of money – and will mean fewer injured and killed in traffic accidents.

Hazardous fumes

Avoid the cooking fumes from your frying pan, especially if the ventilation is poor.

Luxury goods

This boy belongs to a minority: He has access to clean, plentiful water, straight from the tap.

Secrets of forgetting

Alzheimer’s disease takes you into a deep darkness. But a laser light and a detective molecule will lead you out.

A soft touch

If robots are going to be able to lift soft things without damaging them, we need to think differently.

One centimetre is enough

Did you eat fish last year that contained high mercury levels? A researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has developed an innovative test that uses hair to provide the answer.

Threatened language

Only several hundred people currently speak Southern Sámi. But the language refuses to die.

Safer with light metals

A cheap and simple structure made of aluminium can mean the difference between life and death the day that bombs go off.

Finding the plug

A pressure pulse through a pipeline can locate plugs, saving oil companies a lot of money.

Real-time Beethoven

Now, you can compose and perform in the same few milliseconds. And the variations you can make on a single theme are infinite.

A longer life with a Superman bicycle

A new type of exercise equipment can prevent serious lifestyle illnesses in paraplegic patients.The equipment, which was partly developed at NTNU, was first designed for the American actor Christopher Reeve.

Making the invisible visible

A new camera exposes secrets hidden on a surface: spots of cancer on a face. Human remains on a hill. The discoverer of this camera calls it the “PryJector.”

Safe on the seabed

We can see what sticks up out of the sea – a big tower with rotor blades that are seventy meters long. But what does it look like underwater?

Paper chase

Guy Lönngren builds recycled student housing out of cardboard.

Finding cancer early

New ultrasound technology will make it possible for doctors to discover cancer tumors far earlier than before.

Rock hard workouts

Physical activity can help reduce women’s risk of developing osteoporosis. But taking a stroll simply isn’t enough.

The threat inherent in our imaginations

“Money? For something that may never pay?” grumbles the dull troll called Society every time a call is made for an increase in funding for basic research. And here is the explanation: