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Many great discoveries and inventions spring from basic research. That’s particularly true for medicine, but also for many other research areas.

Have you been bitten by the running bug? If so, perhaps you’ve been asking yourself this very question. Well, we have the answer!

A new earplug can now serve as hearing protection, a music player, and a microphone – all at once! At the heart of this technology is a MEMS chip developed at SINTEF in collaboration with Minuendo.

(Joint press release) Imec expands Europractice portfolio by offering access to thin-film piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (piezoMEMS) fabrication services from SINTEF, a leading European independent research institute in Norway.

Research indicates that workplaces which encourage a healthy integration between their employees’ work and personal lives have a happier and better performing workforce.

If only techno-optimists get to test AI tools, the results simply aren’t good enough. This is where Tesla made a big mistake – a lesson that the health sector will do well to learn.

For AI to help us solve the world’s major challenges, we need to invest in other types of machine learning, not only language models like ChatGPT.

For the most part, Norwegian girls enjoy going to school, whereas boys exhibit a marked dislike of the school setting. One of the problems is that boys experience school as unfair.

Protective shoes are stiff and heavy and made primarily for protection. Many people feel they’re more trouble than they’re worth. But research is coming to the rescue, with better ergonomics and a reduced climate footprint.