How bats fly to find their prey
New research, complete with night-vision video recordings, helps elucidate how bats actually fly to find their prey.
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2015
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Blocking the sun to control global warming
It sounds like something out of a bad science fiction movie—artificially blocking sunlight to keep global warming from overheating the Earth. Nevertheless, a small cadre of researchers is studying the option—so that if ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2021
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A cushy lab life has its evolutionary costs—when it comes to fish, that is
Consider the humble zebrafish. They produce 200 embryos every 7 days, they're cheap and easy to grow, and their young are small and transparent. But their most important feature—at least if you are a researcher—is that ...
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2022
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Norway could be Europe's green battery
Norwegian hydropower could make Norway the "green battery" of Europe—not by building new power plants, but by further developing the hydropower installations that were built out beginning at the turn of the last century.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 10, 2015
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Mapping the conflict between farming and biodiversity
It's well known that producing foods such as beef can have an outsized footprint when it comes to carbon emissions. But a new study shows that some of these same staples can have an equally huge effect when it comes to biodiversity ...
Ecology
May 29, 2023
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Is there a new deep-sea fishery on the horizon?
The world's oceans contain huge volumes of unexploited resource species living at depths between 200 and 1,000 meters in the so-called mesopelagic zone. They have the potential to provide humans with valuable resources such ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2024
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The downside of biodiesel fuel
The oil industry believes biodiesel is not to blame for problems that Norwegian car owners are experiencing. But the nature of the fuel means that it has to be handled differently than regular petroleum-based diesel, a Norwegian ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 5, 2015
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Bombs and buses 600 metres deep
German forces in Norway have surrendered, and after five long years of occupation, the country is finally free.
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2016
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Why has ragweed—a highly allergenic plant—been spreading so quickly?
Why has ragweed – a highly allergenic plant – been spreading so quickly? Researcher Michael Martin took a six-week road trip across the USA and collected 1000 samples of the plant from roadsides and herbaria to answer ...
Ecology
Nov 25, 2016
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What Vikings really put in their pillows
Not too many people are able to identify birds by examining a single feather. But a number of folks need to know that sort of thing, and it can actually save lives.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2018
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