New teaching method can even out children's reading skills
In Norway, girls are much better at reading than boys. But girls and boys perform equally well when using a new teaching method.| Norwegian SciTech News
In Norway, girls are much better at reading than boys. But girls and boys perform equally well when using a new teaching method.| Norwegian SciTech News
Energy consumption cut by 30 percent – without expensive upgrades | Norwegian SciTech News
How climate-friendly is the urban development in your municipality? A new tool helps planners compare alternatives.| Norwegian SciTech News
Fully possible to make residential construction more environmentally friendly | Norwegian SciTech News
Climate scientists often lack the data they need. A master’s student has helped track down key figures from Africa’s most populous country.| Norwegian SciTech News
Norway may offer children's swimming and lifesaving lessons outdoors as early as this year. The goal is to reduce drownings.| Norwegian SciTech News
Making it easier to recycle your house | Norwegian SciTech News
Can the way snow sparkles give us better avalanche warnings and safer autonomous cars?| Norwegian SciTech News
“We must develop thinkers. Not crammers and fact-experts” | Norwegian SciTech News
Geography as a school subject is under pressure. There aren't enough qualified teachers and it loses out to other subjects in school. In many countries, important aspects are left out of the curricula.| Norwegian SciTech News
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 SciTech News
What is it that makes us feel good about ourselves? And what motivates us to do something, regardless of whether it is important or not?| Norwegian SciTech News
Many people feel like they’re invisible, made invisible or hypervisible in a stressful way.| Norwegian SciTech News
This new invention could make today’s heavy electric vehicle batteries lighter, safer and increase their range. The researchers behind the technology believe it is also ideal for use in aviation, space travel, drones and shipping.| Norwegian SciTech News
A new method makes it possible to gain an extensive overview of the materials in our homes. It could be an important step toward a more circular economy.| Norwegian SciTech News
“It's not the politicians, but Big Tech that now gets to decide how technology should be used,” says Heidrun Åm.| Norwegian SciTech News
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.| Norwegian SciTech News
NTNU's Jazz Programme has produced a long line of talented musicians and bands who are making their mark both nationally and internationally. Peer learning and nerding out are two of the key ingredients in the recipe for success.| Norwegian SciTech News
Some people never forget a face. This is an ability police forces around the world find very useful – and AI means the skill has other uses.| Norwegian SciTech News
A small larval fish is providing surprising insight into how the brain can react when water temperatures rise.| Norwegian SciTech News
Fish can adapt their metabolisms to cope with warmer ocean temperatures, but not necessarily with extreme heat.| Norwegian SciTech News
The richly decorated portal at Urnes stave church has often been interpreted in light of paganism, but that's wrong, a new study shows.| Norwegian SciTech News
Allowing Norwegian farmers to buy and sell excess electricity they generate is good for everyone. Today's regulations prevent this.| Norwegian SciTech News
Super-recognizers | Norwegian SciTech News
Fully possible to make residential construction more environmentally friendly | Norwegian SciTech News
Recent research shows that the unexplained and painful fat that is difficult to lose hurts less on a low-carb diet.| Norwegian SciTech News
Wastewater can contain many harmful substances, but a new method enables researchers to purify the water using sunlight and droplets of oil.| Norwegian SciTech News
Greenhouse gas emissions from residential construction in West Asia and North Africa can be significantly reduced.| Norwegian SciTech News
A new electronic voting system can withstand attacks from quantum computers, meaning digital elections can be conducted securely, even in the future.| Norwegian SciTech News
Women's health continues to be given low priority. But a new video provides important information on how to strengthen the pelvic floor after childbirth.| Norwegian SciTech News
Autonomous vessels need to be more afraid of dying | Norwegian SciTech News
Developing a new cure for lung cancer | Norwegian SciTech News
The Detectives: Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic | Norwegian SciTech News
Many children struggle with reading. A new method offers hope. The focus is on giving children the right challenges.| Norwegian SciTech News
Research institutions from Norway and elsewhere have collected a great amount of data from the northern oceans. But who should control it?| Norwegian SciTech News
Micro workouts are all the talk right now. Effective physical activity in small doses provides great health benefits, researchers have found.| Norwegian SciTech News
This satellite flies at 7.5 kilometers per second and can see harmful algae from space | Norwegian SciTech News
New brain research shows that writing by hand helps children learn more and remember better. At the same time, schools are becoming more and more digital, and a European survey shows that Norwegian children spend the most time online of 19 countries in the EU.| Norwegian SciTech News
When mothers lose weight, their children slim down too. When mothers are less active, children grow bigger. Dad's choices appear to play less of a role.| Norwegian SciTech News
Hydrogen production and carbon capture – in a single step | Norwegian SciTech News
Even if you have had COVID-19, new vaccines will boost the antibodies you need for protection against new variants of the virus.| Norwegian SciTech News
Just as with COVID-19, future viral outbreaks will have plenty of time to spread before a vaccine becomes available. A new approach developed at NTNU can save lives and prevent the need to shut down society.| Norwegian SciTech News
Norway already exports large amounts of valuable alginate, but new research findings can make this industry even larger and more sustainable.| Norwegian SciTech News
Algae cultivation is popular, but good uses for the raw material are still lacking. Researchers in Norway are set to do something about this, with the goal of fully using this resource.| Norwegian SciTech News
Twice as many women as men suffer from headaches. Migraines are the leading cause of disability for people under the age of 50.| Norwegian SciTech News
It can take up to 200 years for damaged marine environments to fully recover. That is why we must implement active restoration interventions.| Norwegian SciTech News
Plastic pollution is a huge problem. Plastics contain more than 16,000 different chemicals, one quarter of which are hazardous.| Norwegian SciTech News
Norway is home to 212 different bee species, but insect numbers are generally in decline. Some species have disappeared.| Norwegian SciTech News
Engaging the local residents is key to the success of local festivals.| Norwegian SciTech News
Swimming instruction in Norway takes place almost exclusively in indoor swimming pools. But most water-related accidents occur outdoors.| Norwegian SciTech News
Two tiny Scandinavian settlements in Greenland persisted from the late 980s to 1450, and then vanished. Was the walrus tusk trade the reason?| Norwegian SciTech News
A new study provides a comprehensive catalogue of more than 16,000 known plastic chemicals, with their properties, uses and hazards. The goal is to enable safer plastic production.| Norwegian SciTech News
We all know that exercise is good for us, but how much, how hard, how long? One exercise physiologist's research journey to find the answers.| Norwegian SciTech News
The risk of mortality for people who were born prematurely from heart disease, chronic lung disease or diabete is twice as high for preemies as for the general population.| Norwegian SciTech News
Elderly people with dementia being subjected to violence, abuse and neglect in their own homes | Norwegian SciTech News
Employers have to address many new challenges now that working from home is here to stay after the pandemic.| Norwegian SciTech News
Spintronics is a research field that examines how the spin of an electron can be harnessed to make smarter, faster computers.| Norwegian SciTech News
Kelp-eating microalgae offer huge potential | Norwegian SciTech News
Allowing elderly people to live at home for as long as possible has a downside. Caring for the elderly has been left worn-out family.| Norwegian SciTech News
Algae that eat kelp instead of making their own sugar opens the door to new ways of making useful products out of the seaweed.| Norwegian SciTech News
Advances in laser technology can help improve self-driving cars and the fibre-optic internet, among other things.| Norwegian SciTech News
Small satellites offer major commercial opportunities | Norwegian SciTech News
Nanomedicines save lives, but they don’t reach the market fast enough. Researchers have now found a way to accelerate the process.| Norwegian SciTech News
Johannes Klæbo ticks all the boxes when looking for the most important factors needed for success in mass start cross-country ski racing.| Norwegian SciTech News
Skiers can gain on their competitors by timing their push over the top of the hill at exactly the right moment.| Norwegian SciTech News
Researchers from SINTEF and NTNU are going to save winter wonderland with climate friendly and temperature independent snowmaking.| Norwegian SciTech News
More than 80 years ago, Norwegian teachers refused to teach Nazi ideology. The story of how they won — and why it still matters.| Norwegian SciTech News
Dye pigments can be toxic. Now researchers are making non-toxic, recyclable, sustainable colours with nanotechnology and nature's approaches.| Norwegian SciTech News
An alloy is a metal that contains tiny amounts of another element. Some aluminium alloys stored at room temperature are made stronger. Why?| Norwegian SciTech News
There is still no approved general cure for enterovirus infections, but Norwegian trials appear promising.| Norwegian SciTech News
Ten institutions followed in Fridtjof Nansen's footsteps in a collaborative investigation of the Barents Sea now documented in a new book.| Norwegian SciTech News
The mechanisms in the brain that should reduce pain don’t work as well in people with migraine when they haven’t gotten enough sleep.| Norwegian SciTech News
Young, female, well-educated, working and live in a big city in a rich EU country? You're probably among those who are most satisfied.| Norwegian SciTech News
Well-meaning climate measures can make matters worse | Norwegian SciTech News
Young adults with reduced work capacity benefited greatly from the four-week interdisciplinary rehabilitation stay. The key: an individually tailored programme and a supportive community.| Norwegian SciTech News
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.| Norwegian SciTech News
Researchers are applying methodologies used to transport oil and gas in their efforts to upscale a technology for carbon capture and storage.| Norwegian SciTech News
Researchers have developed a machine, based on AI technology, that can customise personal care products to your own requirements.| Norwegian SciTech News
'Industrial symbioses’ and ‘green hubs’ are offering answers to the challenge of meeting Europe’s climate change mitigation targets.| Norwegian SciTech News
Direct Air Capture technologies offer new ways of getting closer to climate change mitigation targets, but we still have a long way to go.| Norwegian SciTech News
Key minerals are being transported from politically unstable countries. Is it possible to safeguard access to these raw materials here?| Norwegian SciTech News
Peritoneal cancer is difficult to treat and has a poor survival prognosis, but a new and effective nanodrug delivery system is offering hope.| Norwegian SciTech News
In collaboration with SINTEF, the industrial company Removr aims to become a world leader in direct CO2 capture from air.| Norwegian SciTech News
Toxic flurocarbons in ski waxes have caused a big stir in the racing community. But they are everywhere, including in household products.| Norwegian SciTech News
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Gloom and doom warnings about climate change do not work | Norwegian SciTech News
How new medicines will find their way from the research laboratory into your body | Norwegian SciTech News
Valuable raw materials being discarded at sea | Norwegian SciTech News
Teachers now face the extra challenge of designing exams that will prevent students from cheating their way to good grades with ChatGPT.| Norwegian SciTech News
156 working fishermen lost their life since the new millennium. A safety researcher at SINTEF says that this only goes to underline the message delivered in a report recently published by her team.| Norwegian SciTech News
How the unlikely combination of WWII Norway and a jumble of personalities helped build modern Norway, one aluminium ingot at a time.| Norwegian SciTech News
One in ten Norwegian adolescents has engaged in deliberate self-harm without intending to commit suicide. Parents' own stress can affect this.| Norwegian SciTech News
Several studies show that burnout is more about depressive stress in everyday life than specifically about work.| Norwegian SciTech News
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.| Norwegian SciTech News
How low does pay have to be before people no longer bother to work? It should always be better to work than to receive unemployment benefits.| Norwegian SciTech News
Research shows that good information can influence our energy consumption. Consumers respond to information about higher energy prices.| Norwegian SciTech News
Tests show that it is possible to cut up to 33 percent of energy consumption using smart heating controllers.| Norwegian SciTech News
Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.| Norwegian SciTech News
Every Norwegian Jew had their homes, possessions and businesses confiscated by the Nazis, buth these not returned or replaced after the war.| Norwegian SciTech News
