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Choice of partner affects health
Individuals tend to choose partners of equal socio-economic status. This factor may also be significant in terms of health.
Published: 16.01.2013 -
Three projects guaranteed co-financing with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US
The Research Programme on Mental Health and the Programme on Alcohol and Drug Research have completed the assessment of grant applications submitted for the 28 November 2012 deadline. The three projects selected are each guaranteed a maximum of NOK 5 million, or up to 50 per cent of the project costs, in funding for the Norwegian segment of the cooperative projects. The guarantee will be fulfilled if the project is funded by NIH. Several good projects were placed on a waiting list as well.
Published: 14.01.2013 -
Revolutionary treatment for psoriasis
Three per cent of the world’s population suffer from the skin condition known as psoriasis. A Norwegian research-based company is close to developing a treatment that could help millions. The research may also prove beneficial in the treatment of other illnesses.
Published: 11.01.2013 -
Bugs reveal the richness of species on Earth
An international team of researchers has carried out a survey of the biological diversity in a tropical rainforest. Their efforts have helped them find the key to one of the existential questions to which people have long sought an answer: how many species exist on Earth?
Published: 07.01.2013 -
Nanoscale impulse radar measures depth of snow and ice
Snow is the be-all and end-all for alpine ski resorts. Now a tiny sensor has been developed to determine how much cold gold there is on the slopes and how much more should be produced. The sensor is based on Norwegian radar technology and is no larger than a match head.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Cutting CO2 emissions with innovative technology
Researchers are testing a variety of technological solutions in the battle to reduce CO2 emissions. On this technological front, there is room for not just one but many winners
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Better opportunities for talented young researchers
The Research Council of Norway has allocated funding for ten new national graduate-level researcher schools. The researcher schools will receive a total of NOK 218 million as part of the effort to enhance doctoral programmes.
Published: 17.12.2012 -
Big-data research spurs industrial development
One of the world’s largest specialist groups within the field of big-data analytics is being assembled in Norway. The centre for Information Access Disruptions (iAD), with its head office in Tromsø, is at the core of this activity.
Published: 13.12.2012 -
Funding instruments for regional R&D and innovation evaluated
An evaluation of the Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Regional R&D and Innovation (VRI) has been carried out midway through the programme period. The evaluation shows that the programme is on the right track, but would benefit from further development.
Published: 05.12.2012 -
The petroleum sector: Interplay between governance and industry
Insight into the interplay between policy, economics and petroleum activities is critical for Norway as a major oil and gas-exporting nation. Over the past six years, activities under the Programme on Social Science Petroleum Research (PETROSAM) at the Research Council of Norway have resulted in new knowledge in this field.
Published: 03.12.2012 -
NOK 100 million for projects on cultural conditions underlying social change
The Research Council of Norway has awarded a total of NOK 100 million in funding to 15 projects under the Programme on Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL). This is the first round of grant allocations under the new programme.
Published: 03.12.2012 -
Found the brain’s GPS
The husband-and-wife team of Edvard and May-Britt Moser have put Norwegian neuroscience research on the international map. “We could never have achieved this without the Centres of Excellence scheme (SFF),” they assert.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Fish feed for sustainable aquaculture
Norwegian researchers have been leading an international effort to make aquaculture more sustainable. In 10 years they have revolutionised fish feed.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Using computing power to develop science disciplines
Applied mathematics is making its mark in more and more areas, thanks in great part to impressive new high-performance computers. Norway’s first and only Centre of Excellence (SFF) in mathematics so far is helping to realise the scientific opportunities of these powerful new tools.
Published: 26.11.2012 -
Combining disciplines yields more oil
The idea ten years ago was to integrate four classical disciplines in order to enhance petroleum research. Today, this collaboration between mathematicians, geologists, physicists and chemists has laid the foundation for recovering more oil and gas.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Mitigating damage from landslides, tsunamis and earthquakes
Where are the risks of landslide greatest? What makes a tsunami dangerous? Why are some people harder hit by earthquakes than others? Norway is home to an international research centre for geohazards that is providing the answers needed to better deal with these types of risks.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Supplying tools to counteract civil war
For ten years, prominent researchers have combined their efforts to uncover key perspectives characterising the groups that are engaged in civil war and the causes behind the onset and development of these wars.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Nutrients from farmed salmon waste can feed new marine industry
Waste from salmon production is currently being discharged into Norwegian coastal waters. Researchers say this is a resource – worth NOK 6 billion each year – that should be exploited for new biological production.
Published: 23.11.2012 -
Elite research centres are here to stay
Ten years ago, 13 Norwegian research groups were awarded the status of Centre of Excellence (SFF) with generous funding to provide fruitful conditions for research over a ten-year period. At the time, the scheme represented an entirely new kind of research funding in Norway. “And it really has led to change,” says Director General of the Research Council of Norway, Arvid Hallén.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Language designed for thinking
Language did not evolve to facilitate human communication; it developed as a tool for humans to use in their thinking process. This has been confirmed by exciting research carried out by Norwegian linguists.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Helping Internet users demand more from communication systems
Users should be the focal point when defining and assessing the quality of Internet services, believe top Norwegian researchers.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Studying the forces in rock
Activities at the research centre Physics of Geological Processes (PGP) at the University of Oslo have been specifically set up for cooperation between physicists and geologists. Without this inter-disciplinary approach, the findings that are gaining the PGP international notice would not have been possible.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Important brain discoveries
Ten years after the Norwegian Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience was established it now stands an innovative institution whose interdisciplinary research on DNA repair mechanisms in the brain is at the very forefront of the field.
Published: 22.11.2012 -
Darkened fjord waters mean fewer fish, more jellyfish
The seawater in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and Norway’s coastal waters and fjords is gradually getting darker. Researchers are observing signs similar to those from overproduction of organic compounds. The result may be fewer marine areas with fish, and more jellyfish.
Published: 19.11.2012 -
Top centres are a Norwegian research success story
Generous, long-term financing of research centres has led to internationally cutting-edge results. The 13 initial Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF centres) have left a lasting footprint.
Published: 19.11.2012 -
When Norway became part of Europe
As early as the Middle Ages, European influence was already shaping Norway in critical ways. Researchers are looking at how Christianity altered Norwegian policies, laws and culture and how the elite became part of a shared European culture.
Published: 19.11.2012 -
Supplying knowledge to vital Norwegian industries
Originally, the focus at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) was squarely directed on three industries critical to the Norwegian economy: aquaculture, petroleum and shipping. Over the past decade, however, the new industry of renewable energy has emerged in a strong position.
Published: 19.11.2012 -
Provider of climate expertise
When the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was established, the aim was to become a world leader in its field. The list of publications and the high demand for the centre’s expertise make it clear that the goal has been achieved.
Published: 19.11.2012 -
Next-generation echo sounder soon ready
Norwegian researchers are putting the finishing touches on a new echo sounder that provides far more information than previous versions ever could – making it much easier to identify fish and zooplankton.
Published: 08.11.2012 -
Climate law – an essential aspect of climate research
Climate law is quickly becoming an integral part of international law. The Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo is working to increase expertise in the field with the help of funding from the Research Council of Norway.
Published: 05.11.2012
