New material can help combat water shortages where water is needed most
A newly developed plastic material of the same type as is used in baby diapers can collect clean and safe drinking water from the air.
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A microphone that can sort sounds and measure noise could be coming to a construction site near you
A new AI-based sound metre can distinguish between excavators and seagulls. This is not that easy for artificial intelligence to understand.
Researchers are harvesting green energy from ground vibrations
Vibrations in the ground are found everywhere. They occur when cars pass by, when machines are operating, or when the earth’s crust moves. For most of us, these are invisible forces. For researchers, however, they represent something far more exciting: an untapped source of clean energy.
This special solar cell system produces both electricity and heat
Researchers have developed a solar cell system that uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy. In addition to electricity, it produces heat for a plant that will capture carbon from industrial emissions.
Gut flora can help us understand impacts of ultra-processed food
To gain more knowledge about how ultra-processed food affects us, we need new research methods, claim researchers. Now they are looking to better understand our intestinal flora.
Eliminating plastic consumption by using agricultural residues
“That’s the dream,” says researcher Hanne Dalsvåg. If the researchers succeed, in the future you might be able to buy vegetables wrapped in packaging made from waste carrot or potato residues.
Norwegian metal strengthens Europe’s security
Metals from Norway are often praised for their low carbon footprint. But right now, it matters even more that they are produced in a European democracy.
Fresh hope for patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease often have to wait a long time to find the right medicine. But the methods of a large interdisciplinary research team offer hope.
Ships need maintenance too. For the climate, it’s best to do it at home
If a worn propeller requires repair, the CO2 footprint will be a full 40 percent lower if the job is done in Norway than if the repair is done in China, the researchers write in this article.
A new way to prevent icing problems for aircraft and drones
Ice formation on wind turbine blades, aircraft and drones can lead to both delays and accidents. But a new material repels cold water droplets that land on the rotor blades before they freeze onto the surface.
The spinoff generator
Europe is falling behind in the innovation and technology race. But you can always find some enterprising types who buck the trend.
The big little discovery
A project that American researchers had given up on. An absent-minded professor who had disliked school as a child. A good portion of curiosity. That is how the story of the Norwegian Ugelstad spheres began. Today they save millions of lives.
Norwegian robot hunts for the best cancer warriors
Cancer patients can regain full health with immunotherapy. Now researchers are hunting for the perfect immune cell with the help of a very special robot. No one has done this before.
Will computers of the future be submerged in liquid?
The need to cool down computers eats into the world’s energy consumption. By using liquid instead of air, we can save large amounts of energy and at the same time produce heat.
Razor-thin solution makes fuel cells cheaper and more environmentally friendly
A new membrane technology – so light and thin that it makes an A4 sheet of paper feel like thick cardboard – has been created in the hydrogen laboratory.
Sustainable salmon? The feed industry will need more electricity
The food industry has to get moved up on the priority queue. Otherwise, it will be impossible to achieve the government’s goal of Norway becoming more self-sufficient in sustainable salmon feed.
COVID-19: five years since lockdown – what has Norway learned?
How did COVID-19 impact Norway and our lives? Researchers know a lot about what changed, and about what remained exactly the same afterwards.
Where kelp is being turned into lab-grown meat
Researchers are growing the food of the future in this laboratory: meat that uses kelp as an alternative to animal-based ingredients.
Our innovation makes it safer to store CO₂ in the subsurface
Such storage will be crucial if we are to halt climate change, which is already costing us enormous sums of money and causing suffering for humans and animals.
Smouldering corrosion risk in sprinkler systems demands new knowledge
Insidious bacteria could cause trouble for the sprinkler wave that is now rolling in across Norway if the tiny organisms are not taken seriously.
Technology that could multiply geothermal output fivefold
Far below the earth’s surface is an energy source with huge and perpetual potential: geothermal heat. But the forces in its scorching and inhospitable depths must be tamed. Now scientists know what that will take.
“Football pitch” metaphor is slide tackling the solar power debate
It’s easy to oppose solar parks when you hear that 60 solar plants are equivalent in area to over 5000 football pitches, as recently reported by NRK. This analogy draws attention away from other important aspects of the debate.
The phenomenon that converts all kinds of heat into electricity
A box the size of a refrigerator that supplies a home – and perhaps ten neighbouring houses – with electricity. That’s Ole Martin Løvvik’s dream at SINTEF.
Researchers in this lab are creating a self-repairing and environmentally friendly EV battery
The goal is to eliminate both charging anxiety and environmental concerns. Now researchers have created the “recipe” to do it.