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Here are Norway’s most energy efficient homes. Total energy consumption? Just over one-third of the national average.

A newly developed surface on implanted catheter may prevent complications from bacteria and infection.

Criminals have discovered cryptography. By encrypting their messages they can communicate with each other undetected.

A little plastic chip makes it possible to identify recycled bottles, assure the quality of food and measure our blood sugar levels.

A spectacular platform has been designed to drift across the oceans of the world with the aid of the currents and the wind.

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.

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.

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Several of the world’s best known cultural treasures are located in areas prone to earthquakes. A new metal alloy will secure their existence.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Scandinavian-designed hydrogen filling stations will soon be in use in Iceland. The pump is designed to tell consumers they’re purchasing an environmentally friendly product.