News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Christoph Heinze on climate change panel (IPCC) (31.01.2011)

18 Norwegian researchers have been selected to contribute to the preparation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s fifth assessment report.

Winds from Siberia reduce Arctic sea ice cover (31.01.2011)

The ice cover in the Arctic has decreased dramatically in recent years. Norwegian researchers have discovered that changes in air circulation patterns create winds that push away the ice.

Alt i ett-algen (25.01.2011)

Ph.D. Student Thomas Reisinger recieves Nanoprize (19.01.2011)

Unraveling the Dead Sea deep biosphere secrets (17.01.2011)

The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) has recently started a drilling campaign in the Dead Sea looking for evidence of life in an extreme hypersaline environment.

Fishing guppies (14.01.2011)

Our guppy experiment is set up to study life-history changes caused by harvesting. This involves monitoring of the populations, and harvesting at regular intervals. Now it is the time for the third harvest.

Economics meets ecology and evolution (04.01.2011)

The Norwegian Research Council interviewed Fabian Zimmermann about his work in fisheries bioeconomics.