Choking on their own growth
The population of the world’s cities is growing by 60 million people a year. What can urban planners do?
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Order out of chaos
“With automated construction, you can just go in and change one parameter, and suddenly the whole design adapts to the change.”
Nano-needles for cells
Tiny needles can force medicine into cells, even when they resist taking it.
Ghana puts its hope in oil
Norway is helping Africa’s youngest oil nation with a prescription for prosperity – and is finding out that learning goes both ways.
Driller thriller
Drilling an oil well is not what it used to be. The job needs its own special tools, the dexterity of a pilot, and bundles of experience.
Stress alarm for smoke-divers
Smoke-divers are exposed to high temperatures, physical exhaustion and stress. A new sensor system lets them know when the body has had enough.
Language is in our biology
If you want to master languages, you should pick your parents with care.
Taking X-rays of CO2
A spongy sandstone deposit can help cool the Earth’s fever.
A long healthy life with exercise
Exercise is good for you. But can it help you live longer and better?
Serengeti road divides biologists
Will a road across the northern tier of Serengeti National Park ruin it?
An arctic animal community crashes in response to extreme weather events
What happens when animals in harsh environments are exposed to extreme weather? Scientists found that extreme icing caused widespread die-offs in one arctic animal community. Climate change may cause more such extremes.
Beating the winter blues
The lack of sufficient daylight in northern climes makes many tired and depressed. But don’t worry, researchers have come up with ways to counteract the winter blues.
The many maps of the brain
Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new research from NTNU’s Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.
Laboratory for advanced sensors
The MiNaLab in SINTEF can boast of having a radiation […]
Lobster baby boom
Researchers have recently succeeded in doubling survival rates among lobster larvae. This could boost populations of a species threatened in the wild.
Diagnosing patients at an early stage
Norske forskere har utviklet den første sensor i verden som kan finne enkeltpartikler i en blodprøve.
Ivory gulls in trouble
High levels of contaminants are linked with thinner eggshells in the ivory gull, a red-listed high Arctic seabird.
When the doctor is out
Training community medical officers to do acute surgery is saving lives in the small west African country of Sierra Leone.
New material may replace silicon
Norwegian researchers are the world’s first to develop a method for producing semiconductors from graphene. This finding may revolutionise the technology industry.
The jacket that talks to Facebook
Collision. Fire. Accidents. Chaos. In a rescue operation, it’s no use trying to communicate via a small mobile phone display. But a jacket – now you’re talking!
Surfaces that repair themselves
A ball bearing – or a slide bearing around an […]
Polar perils
Activity in the Arctic is on the increase, but how safe is it to operate there?
Overlooked by aid
Millions of people suffer permanent disabilities simply because they are poor. Norwegian experts say they are overlooked in the fight against poverty.
Semiconductors grown on graphene
Researchers at NTNU have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene, a hybrid material with competitive properties.