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The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre joins EU funded project

February 1, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC) has become partner in "Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network»; an EU project focusing on building a European ...
Anders Hamsten to be installed as new president of Karolinska Institutet

January 24, 2013 - Source: Read the full story at Karolinska Institutet

Anders Hamsten qualified as a physician at Karolinska Institutet in 1978. Tomorrow, Friday 25 January, he will be installed as the new president of the university, in a stately ceremony in the ...
Better opportunities for talented young researchers

December 23, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The Research Council of Norway has allocated funding for ten new national graduate-level researcher schools. The researcher schools will receive a total of NOK 218 million as part of the effort ...
Big-data research spurs industrial development

December 22, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

One of the world’s largest specialist groups within the field of big-data analytics is being assembled in Norway. The centre for Information Access Disruptions (iAD), with its head office ...
Enormous interest in Polish-Norwegian research cooperation

December 21, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The Polish-Norwegian Research Programme, funded under the scheme for EEA and Norway Grants, received a total of 269 joint project proposals for the November application deadline. This is almost ...
Norwegian scientists win Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize

December 20, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at UNC

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded the 13th Perl-UNC Neuroscience prize jointly to Edvard and May-Britt Moser at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...
Funding instruments for regional R&D and innovation evaluated

December 20, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

An evaluation of the Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Regional R&D and Innovation (VRI) has been carried out midway through the programme period. The evaluation shows that ...
Finnish botanist discovers new banana in Vietnam

December 19, 2012 - Source: The Finnish Museum of Natural History

Finnish sea captain and amateur botanist Markku Häkkinen has studied wild bananas for nearly 40 years. Now he has found the new species to science.
Sensational find of Hans Christian Andersen's first tale

December 18, 2012 - Source: The Danish State Archives

Lovers of Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark, China, Japan and other parts of the world can look forward to reading a hitherto unknown tale by the great storyteller - a tale that must be ...
Promotes greater innovation in the public sector

December 16, 2012 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway

The Research Council of Norway is expanding its efforts to promote innovation in the public sector. A new policy in this area has been drawn up. The objective is to stimulate the public sector ...

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With exercise, sometimes less is more

December 8, 2013 in Health

Moderately overweight people do not lose more weight by exercising 60 minutes. Shorter exercise sessions make people more active throughout the day, says researcher.