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Simulating your cancer treatment on a computer

In ten years, computers will be able to propose the most suitable cancer treatment for you. The idea is to simulate how all possible combinations of existing cancer treatments will work on your particular tumour.

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Melting glaciers are causing sea levels to rise at ever greater rates

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic as well as ice melt from glaciers all over the world are causing sea levels to rise. New data and analysis show that land-based glaciers outside of the main ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland have lost more than 9,000 billion tons of ice since 1961, raising sea levels by 27 millimeters.

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Salt's love of water can play a key role in safe CO₂ storage

Salt precipitation, which creates trouble when injecting CO2 into porous stone, has the potential to clog leakage pathways in the caprocks.

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  • ceed-2018-s-300px[1] The CEED Annual report for 2018 is out Apr. 24, 2019 9:36 AM
  • gornitzka_moevig660_1 Unique agreement with Elsevier ensures open access publishing Apr. 23, 2019 9:32 AM

    As the first country, Norway has signed an agreement with Elsevier that ensures that Norwegian researchers can publish open access at no extra cost in most of Elsevier's journals.

  • andreas-max-kaab-egu-medalje-2019 EGU Louis Agassiz Medal to Professor Kääb Apr. 10, 2019 12:29 PM

    Vienna 8 th of April: The European Geosciences Union (EGU) presented Professor Andreas Max Kääb, Department of Geosciences with the "Louis Agassiz Medal" of 2019. The medal is awarded to research efforts that are "outstanding", and the reasons from EGU for awarding Kääb the medal speak for themselves.

  • sabrinaa Two countries – one renewable goal Apr. 3, 2019 3:06 PM

    There is no doubt that Australia and Japan are two different countries in many ways, for instance from the point of view of their climate, resources, landscape. Such differences are important when considering which renewable energy sources are appropriate to invest into.

The NORA Consortium

The University of Oslo is a partner in the NORA Consortium - The Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium - that aims to strengthen Norwegian research and education within artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.