Discovery Channel Canada videographer Mark Foerester films a 20 kg block of ice that is about to be catapulted into a steel beam. Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk

Celebrity ice

Not since the Titanic has a block of ice been quite so famous. In early June, Discovery Channel Canada came to NTNU’s Structural Impact Laboratory (SIMLab) to watch ice researchers from NTNU’s Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology programme use a giant machine to simulate what happens when a ship slams into an iceberg.

Norwegian companies can benefit from a new RFID data system developed at NTNU. Photo: Nancy Bazilchuk

Putting RFID technology to work

From Finnish hockey players to London double-decker buses to rhino horns, the humble RFID chip is hard at work. New software can help companies harness the power of this tiny technology.

The past decade has seen an unprecedented rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Photo: Thinkstock

Cool climate – clean planet

Ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions and the potential need to deploy untested and expensive climate engineering technologies are just two of the many bits of bad news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report on “Mitigation of Climate Change”, released on 13 April.

We can cut carbon emissions using wind power, solar heat and power, highly efficient building shells, and electric vehicles. Photo: Thinkstock

Key findings from IPCC

Professors from NTNU present key findings from IPPC on how we can mitigate climate change.

Three of our contributing researchers talk about the challenges we face. Photo: Thinkstock

A global challenge

Three climate researchers talk about the latest report from Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC). In English, French and Italian.

Working Group III has been charged with studying options for mitigating the negative impacts of climate change. Photo: Thinkstock

One of 830 scientists behind the climate report

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its new report on “Mitigation of Climate Change” on 13 April, NTNU Professor Edgar Hertwich’s contribution as one of the lead authors of the Energy Systems chapter will amount to exactly 5 pages.

Katja Kim, a PhD candidate working with NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology programme (SAMCoT) prepares a metal plate for her ice collision experiments. Photo: Katja Kim

Crash course

As the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice cap melts away, new trans-Arctic shipping routes will open and see a growing amount of shipping traffic. But what’s the best way to protect ships and other ocean structures if they crash into icebergs?

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Secrets of the High North

The Norwegian arctic island archipelago of Svalbard offers scientists the chance to investigate some of the most intriguing – and perplexing – puzzles facing the high north.

Kavli researchers Sheng-Jia Zhang and Jing Ye were the lead authors in the Kavli Institute paper published in Science magazine on 5 April 2013. Photo: Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU.

A “light switch” in the brain illuminates neural networks

Researchers from NTNU’s Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience are now able to see which cells communicate with each other in the brain by flipping a neural light switch. The results of their efforts are presented in an article in the 5 April 2013issue of Science magazine.

Fuglebestand i nedgang: Det finnes ikke mer enn rundt 10 000 hekkende ismåkepar igjen i verden. Om noen år kan de ha blitt redusert til et par tusen.

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Ivory gulls in trouble

High levels of contaminants are linked with thinner eggshells in the ivory gull, a red-listed high Arctic seabird.

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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.



Semiconductors grown on graphene

Researchers at NTNU have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene, a hybrid material with competitive properties.

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Save the planet? Stop eating meat.

Growing and producing food make agriculture and food consumption among the most important drivers of environmental pressures, including climate change and habitat loss.

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A spin on the future

The science of spintronics, where the spin of an electron is used to create new technologies, may hold the key to making ever faster and lighter consumer products.