Public research university in Trondheim, Norway, known for engineering, science, and technology programs and broad academic research output.
NTNU researchers following Trondheim children from age 8 to 16 found intrinsic motivation, more than working memory, tracked who improved in maths. The data are observational, so the authors' case for building interest over memory training is untested.
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NTNU psychologists surveyed 150 Norwegian soccer players and found amateurs reported significantly more competitive anxiety than elite players. The comparison cannot yet say whether the top of the sport teaches players calm or simply selects the calm ones.
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A paper in Drones synthesises what is known about how species react to drone size, noise and approach angle. Eider ducks ignore a pass at 30 metres; king penguins at that height show a rise in heart rate.
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Hilde Storrosaeter and colleagues read the generative AI education literature from 2022 to spring 2025, and most of what they found was students in higher education describing their own thinking in questionnaires, while 39% of Norwegian 11- and 12-year-olds already use AI.
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More than 2,000 people in Norway and Poland read stories written to make them angry, compassionate or hopeful about climate change, then got the chance to hand over the 200 kroner or 20 zloty they had just been paid.
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Birdsview's Nordic round funds radar-and-LiDAR concrete scanning instead of drilling. The demand signal is real; the headline traction numbers do not quite agree with each other.
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