Category Archives: Popular science presentation

Do not miss the Time Capsule Video with Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux!

In this InterPore Time Capsule, Professor emeritus Dick Bedeaux (https://porelab.no/researchers-and-as… ) and Professor emerita Signe Kjelstrup (https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/signe.kje…) are interviewed by Professor Alex Hansen, all at PoreLab – Centre of Excellence (SFF) (https://porelab.no), Department of Physics (Hansen) and Department of Chemistry (Bedeaux and Kjelstrup) at NTNU. Bedeaux and Kjelstrup are presently active members of PoreLab. They

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Listen to Alex Hansen talking about Ethics and Open Access

Science Conversations @NTNU are web-based conversations between active researchers on different topics. On November 4th, Alex Hansen was invited to the webinar on Ethics and Open Access – important when publishing. Follow the webinar here Conversation topics at the webinar Open access to research results is a requirement from granting authorities both nationally and internationally. This

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Read more about brewed coffee in the last article from Titan

Read more about the physics behind brewed coffee with PoreLab Researcher, Marcel Moura, from the department of Physics, University of Oslo.   Article here (in Norwegian) >>

The PoreLab exhibition is exposed during 2 weeks in front of the city hall in Oslo, Norway

We are delighted to announce that the PoreLab Art Exhibition has finally gained the streets of Oslo!   In the past few months we have collected many of our most beautiful images from experiments and simulations to set up a virtual porous media art gallery (https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/1051366/the-art-of-porous-media). Now, with the slow reopening of the society, we

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Vilde Bråten, ranked second in the national finale in Researchers Grand Prix!

Vilde Bråten, PhD candidate at PoreLab and at the department of Materials science and engineering at NTNU, was placed second in the national finale in Researchers Grand Prix Congratulations! She hold a presentation on nanothermodynamics. The contest consisted of one regional finale in Trondheim, Norway, and one National  finale. In both finals she presented two four

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An article under TiTan on “The Art of Porous Media”

Read an article in Titan about PoreLab exhibition “The Art of Porous Media” here:   Titan article here >>

Read the last news regarding ‘Oumuamua in Aftenposten (in Norwegian)

The last article published by Professor Eirik Flekkøy on ‘Oumuamua, the interstellar guest in our solar system, is available here in Aftenposten. The article is in Norwegian. Article here (in Norwegian) >>

PoreLab researcher invited on live TV in Brazil

PoreLab researcher, Marcel Moura,  was on live TV on May 18th, 2020, in Brazil. It was a special program about the anniversary of his hometown Caruaru (18/05). He talked about PoreLab’s activities and showed a video of the Flying Chain experiment. He talked as well about a very relevant topic during this corona time, namely

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Vejen til frihed

Exit-strategi : Kan vi forhindre nye bølger af COVID-19 ved hjælp af såkaldt kontaktsporing? Ja, viser en gruppe forskere: Ved hjælp af overvågning, test og karantæne er det muligt at holde smitten i ave.Les artikkelen fra Gaute Linga og Kristian Stølevik Olsen, Postdok og  PhD kandidat fra institutt for fysikk ved Universitet i Oslo her: https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2020-19/ideer/vejen-til-frihed?fbclid=IwAR12qfhJy6y3HE_EmtcDboTZ_TzycjBu-JOdHM47JHTF59QLW7r4l07N3qg Figuren

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Splitter ny 3D-skanner følger væsker fra hulrom til hulrom

        Nytt verktøy kan avsløre hemmeligheter om vann i et vannreservoar, olje i et oljereservoar og CO2 under havbunnen.    I en ny artikkel fra Eivind Torgersen under Titan.no, viser fram Professor Knut Jørgen Måløy og PhD kandidat Joachim Falck Brodin nyvinningen som åpner nye dører i forskning på det som kalles porøse

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Watch the tea bag experiment and learn more about two-phase flow in porous media

Read the Titan article from Marcel Moura here (in Norwegian): https://titan.uio.no/naturvitenskap-fysikk/2020/ta-en-kopp-te-og-tenk-pa-jordskjelv It is based on the recent publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2019.00217/full

Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor to our solar system, is a dust bunny

Professor Eirik Flekkøy from PoreLab University of Oslo explains the nature of Oumuamua under Popular Science. Read the article here: https://www.popsci.com/story/space/oumuamua-not-aliens-maybe-dust/ More articles about Oumuamua available here: Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-rule-out-aliens-as-the-explanation-for-oumuamua Newshub: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-just-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html And in French: https://eost.unistra.fr/actualites/actualite/article/et-maintenant-les-moutons-dans-lespace-de-poussiere/

PoreLab researcher Marcel Moura, special guest at the Brazilian radio “Cultura”

Dr. Marcel Moura, Researcher at PoreLab Oslo, was a special guest for an hour-long radio program in Brazil on October 29th. He was interviewed in relation with recent oil spill along the Brazilian coasts. Brazil is going through a tremendous environmental disaster: more than 2000 km of its pristine beaches have been affected by a

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Dust bunnies in space!

Together with the astronomer Jane X. Luu, Njord and PoreLab UiO professors Eirik Grude Flekkøy and Renaud Toussaint, may have identified the solar system’s largest dust bunny.   Illustration: PoreLab/UiO (left) og Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 (right). It is an interstellar object, travelling through our solar system, never to return, and was first observed from Hawaii in October 2017. It’s

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Alex Hansen, Jonas Kjellstadli and Srutarshi Pradhan talk about concret in Gemini

Read the last research news from PoreLab in Gemini here. Det som ikke sprekker dem, gjør dem sterkere Noen materialer blir sterkere når de utsettes for påkjenninger. Men alt bryter sammen til slutt. Hvorfor er det sånn? Og når gir materialene etter likevel? Illustrasjon: Shutterstock, NTB Scanpix Av Steinar Brandslet Publisert 23.09.19 Det høres litt

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