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The idea of an intelligent earplug was conceived over a cup of coffee. Today, this special hearing protection unit is the best of its type in the world.

Experts believe that we can pump CO₂, the most common greenhouse gas, into reservoirs in the North Sea. It would essentially eliminate one of this century’s problems. But is largescale CO₂ storage on the Norwegian continental shelf really that straight forward?

This is the clothing that fire-fighters have been waiting for: an intelligent undershirt that cools overheated bodies

We Norwegians had hoped to pioneer “green” thermal power generation.However,we have been pipped at the post by Sweden,which is about to build the world’s first power station with CO₂ capture – in Germany.

We consciously wash plastic containers and take out the bags for recycling. But is this beneficial? Can the option of an additive that breaks down the plastic be just as good?

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.