News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Starting October 1, the new name will be the Faculty of Science and Technology. We will certainly celebrate this!

We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.

The GoNorth 2024 expedition concluded last week after a three-week scientific voyage, from August 29 to September 19, exceeding expectations with a wealth of new data, thanks to favourable ice and weather conditions.

Early in the morning on the 26th of December 1999, the people of France were shocked by two fatal storms. How did these massive cyclones take the meteorologists by surprise? And can machine learning aid weather forecasts of the future?

A recent Developmental Biology article reveals new insights into the unique "house" of Oikopleura dioica. A team of researchers led by David Lagman uncovers how Oikopleura repurposed ancient cellular machinery to build its complex, food-filtering "house," shedding light on its evolutionary origins.

How do you get a group of social scientists, biologists, oceanographers, mathematics and informatics scientists to find common ground? How do they overcome their differences in background, methodology and language to unite to address questions and issues that span their different disciplines? Maybe by sending a group of SEAS fellows out into the fjords for a couple of days of isolation and focus... Read more