Big Data – for better or worse

22.05.2013A full 90% of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. The internet companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilised. Is this a good...

Big Data makes it possible to achieve research results that cover a wide range of issues, and can tell us a great deal about developments in the world in many different areas. Photo: Istock//© Mike...

Top-class biofuel from the depths of the forest

21.05.2013Tops and branches from tree-felling sites are reborn in the laboratory as compact pellets. However, the energy industry will not act until the price is right.

A SINTEF project led by senior scientist Øyvind Skreiberg is transforming the chopped-off branches and tops of felled spruce trees into a fine powder that is then pressed into high-energy pellets...

Easier transition to offshore production of heavy oil

06.05.2013Tomorrow’s offshore oil will be highly viscous – and it will be a heavy job to bring it ashore. But newly-won knowledge is offering hope for fields that today would have been...

Controlling robots with your thoughts

03.05.2013This is Angel Perez Garcia. He can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.


Maritime personnel need better training

22.04.2013Hard times for the shipping companies. Some of the blame lies with ships' officers who are failing to put new procedures into practice.

Weighing trailers on the road

10.04.2013Heavy goods vehicles on Norwegian roads will soon be checked and weighed automatically – while on the road.

Promising drilling tool

05.04.2013A new-born “mole” homes in on small oil reservoirs – an almost untapped source of income.

Bringing fish processing back to Norway

03.04.2013Researchers aim to make it just as economic to process fish in Norway as to send them to China.