03.02.2012Just before Christmas, 80 workers on the oil drilling platforms in the North Sea started their shifts by putting an intelligent plug in their ears.
Hearing damage is a problem on the increase for workers on offshore platforms. Noise levels linked to activities such as helicopter transport are very high. Photo: Statoil.
30.01.2012Gender balance in the labour market has improved little in Norway in the course of the past 20 years, according to a new survey. A growing proportion of female managers is one...
The proportion of women is slowly but surely declining in the most female-dominated occupations, although in 2010, 72 per cent of care, sales and service staff were still women. Photo: iStock
30.01.2012Pink and insidious: a tiny animal has become an expensive neighbour for fish farmers. Now scientists intend to make it hot for the little pest, and without using toxic...
27.01.2012A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.
02.01.2012The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to...
13.12.2011Could European air traffic controllers manage more flights with the help of modern productivity gains? Experts from Austria and Norway intend to answer that question.
08.12.2011A Nobel Prize was awarded when "high-temperature superconductors" were discovered in 1986. Now the world has at last found an application for lossless conductors, thanks to...
12.12.2011Scandinavian, Finnish and Icelandic experts on the capture, transport and storage of CO2 are meeting for the first time in a Nordic Centre of Expertise.
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